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ἐναργ-ής , ές,
A.visible, palpable, in bodily shape, esp. of the gods appearing in their own forms, “Χαλεποὶ δὲ θεοὶ φαίνεσθαι ἐναργεῖς” Il.20.131; “οὐ γάρ πως πάντεσσι θεοὶ φαίνονται ἐναργεῖς” Od.16.161, cf. 3.420, 7.201; freq. of a dream or vision, “ἐναργὲς ὄνειρον ἐπέσσυτο” 4.841; [ὄναρ] A.Pers.179, etc.; ὄψιν ἐνυπνίου τῷ ἑωυτοῦ πάθει ἐναργεστάτην most clearly relating to . . , Hdt.5.55, cf. 7.47; “ἐνύπνια” Hp. Prorrh.1.5; ἐ. ταῦρος in visible form a bull, a very bull, S.Tr.11; ἐ. τινὰ στῆσαι to set him bodily before one, Id.OC910; ἐ. βλεφάρων ἵμερος desire beaming from the eyes, Id.Ant.795 (lyr.).
b. prominent, “ἄρθρα” Aret.SD1.8.
2. manifest to the mind's eye, τάδ᾽ ἀντίπρῳρα δή σοι βλέπειν πάρεστ᾽ ἐ. S.Tr.224; λῃστὴς ἐ. the manifest robber, Id.OT535, cf.Ant.263; “τοῖς ὁρῶσιν ἐ. ἡ ὕβρις φαίνεται” D.21.72. Adv. -γῶς visibly, manifestly, A.Th.136, S.El.878; “ἐ. ἡ θεός σ᾽ ἐπισκοπεῖ” Ar. Eq.1173.
3. of words, etc., clear, distinct, “ἐ. βάξις ἦλθεν” A.Pr.663; freq. in Prose, ἐ. τεκμήριον, σημεῖον, ἀπόδειξις, etc., Pl.Ion535c, Ti.72b (Comp.), D.18.300, etc.; “-εστέρα γνῶσις” Pl.Tht.206b, cf.Epicur.Ep.3 p.60 U.; ἐναργ-εστάτη αι^σθησις Arist.Pr.886b35<*> “ἐ. τοῦ πράγματος ἐπίνοια” Epicur.Fr.255; καὶ τοῦτο ἐ. ὄτι . . (for δῆλον ὅτι) Pl.Tht.150d; “ἐναργὲς τοῦτο συμβαλεῖν” Ar.V.50. Adv. -γῶς, Ion. “-γέως, λέγειν” Hdt.8.77; παραστῆσαι Acl.Tact.1.5: Comp.-έστερον, εἰπεῖν, διόψεται, Pl.Ti.49a, R.611c: Sup. “-έστατα, γνῶναι” Id.Alc.1.132c.
II. brilliant, splendid, “βωμός” Pi.O.7.42.
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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