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ἕκαστος , η, ον,
A.each, opp. the whole body, Il.2.805, etc. : sg. with pl. Verb, ἔβαν οἶκόνδε ἕκαστος they went home each to his own house, 1.606 ; “δεδμήμεσθα ἕκαστος” 5.878, cf. Hdt.3.158 ; so in Att., Ar.Pl. 785, Pl.Prt.327e, etc. ; “ὅτι ἕκαστος ἐπίστασθε ἀγαθόν” X.Smp.3.3 : sg. in apposition with pl. Noun or Pron., which expresses the whole, “Τρῶας δὲ τρόμος αἰνὸς ὑπήλυθε γυῖα ἕκαστον” Il.7.215 ; “ὔμμι..ἑκάστῳ” 15.109 ; “αἱ δὲ γυναῖκες..θαύμαζον..ἑκάστη” 18.496, etc. ; “Περσίδες δ᾽.. ἑκάστα..λείπεται” A.Pers.135 (lyr.) ; αἱ ἄλλαι πᾶσαι [τέχναι] “τὸ αὑτῆς ἑκάστη ἔργον ἐργάζεται” Pl.R.346d, cf. Grg.503e ; ὅστις ἕκαστος every one which.. (nisi leg. ὥς τις), Hes.Th.459.
2. the Art. is sts. added to the Subst. (so regularly in earlier Att. Inscrr., IG12.22.14, al., exc. ἑκάστου μηνός ib.6.125) with which ἕκαστος agrees, in which case ἕκαστος is commonly put first, καθ᾽ ἑ. τὴν ἡμέραν every single day, Isoc.12.211, etc. ; “περὶ ἑ. τῆς τέχνης” Pl.Phdr.274e : also following the Subst., “κατὰ τὸν οξπλίτην ἕκαστον” Th.5.49 ; “κατὰ τὴν ἡμέραν ἑκάστην” Id.6.63, al.
II. in pl., all and each severally, Il.1.550, al., A. Supp.932, etc. ; οἷστισιν ἑκάστοις to whichsoever severally, Pl.Lg. 799a.
2. each of two or more groups or parties, Od.9.164, Hdt. 1.169, A.Pr.491, Th.6.77, etc.
III. strengthd. by the addition of other Prons., εἷς ἕ. (v. εἷς) ; “εἷς τις ἕ.” S.Ant.262 ; ἕκαστός τις each one, Pi.N.4.92, Th.3.45, etc. ; “ταῦτα ἕκαστα” Hdt.5.13, etc. ; “αὔθ᾽ ἕκαστα” all in exact detail, A.Pr.950.
2. with Preps., esp. “κατά, καθ᾽ ἕκαστον” singly, by itself, Pl.Tht.188a, al. ; “καθ᾽ ἕ. καὶ σύμπαντα” Id.Sph.259b ; τὸ καθ᾽ ἕ., τὰ καθ᾽ ἕκαστα, particulars, Arist.Ph.189a6, EN 1143b4, al. ; παρ᾽ ἕκαστον, παρ᾽ ἕκαστα, in every case, Plb.4.82.5,3.57.4, etc. ; “παρ᾽ ἕκαστον καὶ ἔργον καὶ λόγον διδάσκοντες” Pl.Prt.325d ; παρ᾽ ἕκαστον λέγων constantly interjecting, Men.Epit.48.
3. “ὡς ἕκαστοι” each by himself, Hdt.6.79, Th.1.15, etc. : in sg., “τῶν δὲ ὡς ἑκάστῳ θύειν θέλει” Hdt.1.132, cf. Pi.P.9.98 ; “οὐχ ὡς ἕ. ἀλλὰπάντες” Arist.Pol. 1292a12, cf. 1283b34.
IV. later, = ἑκάτερος, D.H.3.2 codd. (“ϝέκαστος” Leg.Gort.1.9, al., Schwyzer 409.4 (Elis), IG9(1).334.9 (Locris). Apptly. connected with ἑκάς by Dam.Pr.423.)
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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