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ἔνθεν , Adv.:
I. Demonstr., thence,
1. of Place, Il.10.179, etc.: also in tracing pedigrees, “γένος δέ μοι ἔ. ὅθεν σοί” 4.58; ἔ. μὲν . . ἑτέρωθι δὲ . . on the one side and on the other, Od.12.235, cf. 59; αἳ μὲν ἐξἀριστερᾶς, αἳ δ᾽ ἔ. E Hec.1152; ἔ. καὶ ἔ. on this side and on that, Hdt.4.175, Th.7.81, Pl.Prt.315b, etc.; ἔ. μὲν . ., ἔ. δὲ . ., on one side . . on the other . . X.An.3.5.7; ἔ. μὲν . ., ἐξ εὐωνύμου δὲ . ., Hdt.1.72; ἔ. μὲν . ., ἑτέρωσε δὲ . ., Pl.Sph.224a: c. gen., “ἔ. καὶ ἔ. τῶν τροχῶν” on both sides of . ., X.Cyr.6.1.30, cf. An.4.3.28.
2. of Time, thereupon, thereafter, Il.13.741; “τὰ δ᾽ ἔ.” what follows, A.Ag.248 (lyr.); “τὸ δ᾽ ἔ.” S.OC476.
3. of occasion, thence, from that point, ἔ. ἑλών [τὴν ἀοιδήν], Lat. inde exorsus, Od.8.500, cf. D.L.1.102; from that cause or circumstance, E.Tr.951.
II. Relat., for ὅθεν,
1. of Place, whence, “δέπα ἔ. ἔπινον” from which . ., Od.19.62, cf.4.220; freq.answering to “ἔνθα, ὁ μὲν ἔνθα καθέζετ᾽ ἐπὶ θρόνου ἔ. ἀνέστη Ἑρμείας” from which . ., 5.195, etc.; of origin, “τὸ κέρδος ἔ. οἰστέον” S.Ant.310; “ἔ. ἦν γεγώς” Id.OT1393, cf. 1485; to the place whence, “ἄξουσιν ἔ. ἕξουσι τὰ ἐπιτήδεια” X.An.2.3.6; in speaking, “ἐπάνειμι ἔ . . . ἐξέβην” Id.HG6.5.1, cf. Oec.6.1.
2. of occasion, whence, “Ἄρει . . ἔ. ἔστ᾽ ἐπώνυμος πέτραπάγος τ᾽ Ἄρειος” A.Eu.689, cf. E.El.38, etc.
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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