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ἔνθεος , ον, in later Prose contr. ἔνθους Ph.2.542, App.Hisp.18, Aen.Gaz.Thphr.p.12 B.:—
A.full of the god, inspired, possessed, ἔ. γυναῖκες, of the Bacchantes, S.Ant.964 (lyr.); ἔ. Ἄρει possessed by him, A.Th.497; “ἐκ Πανός” E.Hipp.141; “ὑπὸ τοῦ ἔρωτος” X.Smp.1.10: c. gen. rei, “τέχνης νιν Ζεὺς ἔνθεον κτίσας φρένα” A.Eu.17; also ἔ. πρὸς ἀρετήν inspired with a love for it, Pl.Smp.179a: Sup. -ωτάτη, φύσις, of Homer, Max. Tyr.32.4.
II. of divine frenzy, inspired by the god, “τέχναι” A.Ag.1209; “μαντική” Pl.Phdr.244b; “μαντεῖαι” Id.Ti.72b; “ἔνθεον ἡ ποίησις” Arist.Rh.1408b19; “ἔ. φιλία” Plu.2.752c; τὰ ἔ. frenzied rites, prob.in Herod.8.70. Adv. “ἐνθέως” Men.Mon.229, App.Hisp.26, Jul.Or.7.215b, Iamb.VP32.216.
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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