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ἕνεκα , Il.1.110, etc., or ἕνεκεν (twice in Hom., Od.17.288,310, rare in Trag., as E.Med.999 (lyr.), and early Prose, Th.6.2, X.HG2.1.14, Pl.Smp.210e; in Com., Men.Epit.330; twice in fourth-cent. Att. Inscrr., IG2.987A2, 611b13, but prevalent in later Inscrr., cf. SIG 577.7 (Milet., iii/ii B.C.); in late Prose, Sch.Pi.O.7.10), Ep., Ion., and poet. εἵνεκα (also in Pl., Lg.778d, al.), or εἵνεκεν (both forms in Hdt. and Hp. and not uncommon in codd. of later writers;
A.“εἵνεκεν” B.12.136, Pi.I.8(7).35 codd.; εἵνεκε Aret.CA1.2, f.l. in Hdt.7.133): ἕνεκε SIG333.14 (Samos, iv B.C.), Supp.Epigr.1.351.10 (ibid.), CIG 3655.18 (Cyzicus, iii/ii B.C.): Aeol. ἔννεκα Alc.Supp.9.1, IG12(2).258.8 (Lesbos, i A.D.), but ἔνεκα ib. 11(4).1064b32 (Delos), 12(1).645a38 (Nesus): late ἕνεκον JHS37.108 (Lydia), etc.:—Prep. with gen., usu. after its case; also before, Il.1.94, B.12.136, Hdt.3.122, etc. When it follows its case, it is sometimes separated from it by several words, as in Hdt.1.30, D.20.88, etc.
1. on account of, “Τρώων πόλιν . . ἧς εἵνεκ᾽ ὀϊζύομεν κακὰ πολλά” Il.14.89, etc.; “ὕβριος εἵνεκα τῆσδε” 1.214; τοῦδ᾽ ἕνεκα for this, ib.110; “ὧν ἕ.” wherefore, 20.21; “τίνος ἕ. βλάβης;” A.Fr.181; “παῖσαι ἄνδρας ἕνεκεν ἀταξίας” X.An. 5.8.13; “στεφανοῦσθαι ἀρετῆς ἕνεκα” Aeschin.3.10; for the sake of, “τοῦ ἕ.;” Pl.Prt.31cb; τῶν δὲ εἵνεκα, ὅκως . ., or ἵνα . ., Hdt.8.35,40; “κολακεύειν ἕ. μισθοῦ” X.HG5.1.17; διὰ νόσον ἕ. ὑγιείας by reason of sickness for the sake of health, Pl.Ly.218e, cf. Smp.185b; τὸ οὗ ἕ. the final cause, Arist.Ph.194a27, Metaph.983a31; “τὸ οὗ ἕνεκεν” Id.Ph.243a3, Metaph.1059a35.
2. as far as regards, ἐμοῦ γ᾽ ἕνεκα as far as depends on me, Ar.Ach.386, D.20.14; “τοῦ φυλάσσοντος εἵνεκεν” Hdt. 1.42; εἵνεκεν χρημάτων as for money, Id.3.122, etc.; “ἕνεκά γε φιλονικίας” Pl.R.548d, cf. 329b; ἐμπειρίας μὲν ἄρα ἕ. ib.582d; “ὁμοῖοι τοῖς τυφλοῖς ἂν ἦμεν ἕνεκά γε τῶν ἡμετέρων ὀφθαλμῶν” X.Mem.4.3.3.
3. in consequence of, εἵνεκα τέχνας by force of art, AP9.729.
4. pleon., “ἀμφὶσοὔνεκα” S.Ph.554codd.; ὅσον ἀπὸ βοῆς ἕ. as far as shouting went, Th.8.92, X.HG2.4.31; “τίνος χάριν ἕ.;” Pl.Lg.701d, cf.Plt.302b.
II. Conj., for οὕνεκα (q.v.), because, h.Ven.199, Call.Aet.3.1.6,Fr.287.
2. εἵνεκεν, = ὁθούνεκα, that, Pi.I.8(7).35 codd.
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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