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ἐκεῖθεν , poet. κεῖθεν (the only form used by Hom., also in Trag. where metre requires) : Aeol. κήνοθεν Alc.86 : Dor. τηνῶθεν Ar.Ach. 754 ; τηνῶθε Theoc.3.10:—Adv.
A.from that place, thence, opp. ἐκεῖσε, S.Ph.490, etc. ; of a person, “τἀκεῖθεν εἰ ποθούμεθα” on his part, Id.Tr. 632 ; “ὁ ἐ. ἄγγελος” Pl.R.619b ; “τὸ σκῆπτρον ἐ. παραλαβόντες” Jul.Or. 6.181b.
2. = ἐκεῖ, οἱ ἐ. Th.1.62 : c. gen., τοὐκεῖθεν ἄλσους on yon side of the grove, S.OC505 ; “ἕζοντο τὸ κεῖθεν” E.Or.1411 (lyr.).
3. by attraction for “ἐκεῖσε, βῆναι κεῖθεν ὅθενπερ ἥκει” S.OC1227 codd. (lyr.).
II. thence, from that fact, “γνοίη δ᾽ ἄν τις ἐ.” Isoc. 12.224, cf. D.45.48, etc.
III. of Time, thenceforward, Il.15.234 ; “ἐ. ἤδη” D.C.54.25.
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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    • Demosthenes, Against Stephanus 1, 48
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