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ἀτεν-ής , ές,
A.stretched, strained, “κισσός” S.Ant.826 (lyr.); freq. of the eyes, staring, Arist.HA492a11; “τὸ ἀ. τῆς ὄψεως καὶ ἄτεγκτον” D.H.5.8; “τὴν ὄψιν εἰς τὸ ἀ. ἀπερείδεσθαι” intently, Luc.Icar.12.
2. intense, excessive, “ὀργαί” A.Ag.71 (lyr.); “ὀδυρμοί” Call.Fr.1.7 P.
3. straight, direct, ἥκω δ᾽ ἀτενὴς ἀπ᾽ οἴκων straight from home, E.Fr.65.
4. of diseases, obstinate, ἰσχιάς prob. for ἀγεννής in Archig. ap. Aët.12.1.
II. of men's minds and speech, intent, earnest, “ἀτενεῖ . . νόῳ” Hes.Th.661, Pi.N.7.88; ἁπλοῖ καὶ ἀ., of men, Pl.R.547e; “ἀ. παρρησία” E.Fr.737; “ἀ. ψυχή” Luc.Nigr.4.
2. unbending, stubborn, “ἀ. ἀτεράμων τε” Ar.V.730 (lyr.); “ἀστένακτος καὶ ἀ.” D.H.5.8: Comp., Phld. Lib.p.44 O.
III. Adv. ἀτενῶς, Ion. “-έως” Hp.Prorrh.1.24; “ἀ. ἐμβλέπειν” Agatharch.41; δυσπειθῶς καὶ ἀ. ἔχειν πρός τι to be obstinately averse to, Plu.Galb.25:—more freq. in neut., ἀτενὲς ἴκελοι exceeding like , Pi.P.2.77; ἀ. ἀπ᾽ ἀοῦς from dawn onwards, Epich.124.1; “καταμαθεῖν ἀ.” Id.172.4; “ἀ. τηρεῖν” Diph.61; “ἀ. βλέπειν” Plb.18.53.9.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 71
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    • Polybius, Histories, 18.53.9
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