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ἐνδέξιος , α, ον, Hom. only neut. pl. ἐνδέξια,
A.towards the right hand, from left to right, mostly as Adv., θεοῖς ἐνδέξια πᾶσιν οἰνοχόει he filled for all the gods from left to right, Il.1.597; “δεῖξ᾽ ἐνδέξια πᾶσιν” 7.184; “βῆ δ᾽ ἴμεν αἰτήσων ἐνδέξια φῶτα ἕκαστον” Od.17.365; “τὴν ἐπὶ πυρκαϊῆς ἐ. φασι κέλευθον Ἑρμῆν τοὺς ἀγαθοὺς . . ἄγειν” AP7.545 (Hegesipp.): regarded as lucky, hence ἐνδέξια σήματα propitious omens, Il.9.236, cf. SIG 1025.25 (Cos).
2. after Hom. without any sense of motion, on the right, v. l. in E.Hipp.1360 (anap.); ἐνδέξιος σῷ ποδὶ παρασπιστής on thy right, Id.Cyc.6; εἰσιόντων ἐνδέξια on the right as one enters, PPetr.3p.203; “ἡ παραστὰς ἡ ἐνδεξία” Inscr.Prien.19.46 (iii B. C.): c. gen., ἐνδέξια τῆς εἰκόνος ib.53.74 (ii B. C.).
II. clever, “ἔργα” h.Merc.454. Adv. -ιως Sch.Th.2.41.
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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    • Euripides, Cyclops, 6
    • Euripides, Hippolytus, 1360
    • Homer, Iliad, 1.597
    • Homer, Iliad, 7.184
    • Homer, Iliad, 9.236
    • Homer, Odyssey, 17.365
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 4 to Hermes, 454
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.41
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