A.to be quick and active, esp. in service, Hom., only part. pres., with another Verb, ἐπεὶ στόρεσαν λέχος ἐγκονέουσαι in haste, Od.7.340, Il.24.648, cf. Critias Fr.16 D.: later also in imper., ἐγκόνει make haste! S.Aj.988, Ar.Ach.1088; also “ἐγκονῶμεν” S.Aj.811; “ἐγκονεῖτε” Id.Tr.1255, E.HF521; οὐ θᾶττον ἐγκονήσεις; Ar.Av.1324: c. acc. cogn., κέλευθον ἥνπερ ἦλθες ἐγκόνει πάλιν hasten back the way by which thou camest, A.Pr.962: c. inf., Opp.H.4.103, Q.S.1.157. —Rare in Prose, Luc.Anach.4.
ἐγκον-έω ,
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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