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ἐπέκεινα , Adv., for ἐπ᾽ ἐκεῖνα, opp. ἐπὶ τάδε (Pl.Phd.112b),
A.on yonder side, beyond, c. gen., Hecat. ap. Str.12.3.23; “τοῦ Ἡρακλείου ἐ.” X. HG5.1.10; “οἱ ἐ. Τίγριδος καὶ Εὐφράτου” Hdn.2.8.8; “ἐ. ἐλθεῖν Διονύσου” farther than . ., Arr. An.5.2.1: metaph., “ἐ. τῆς οὐσίας ὑπερέχειν” Pl. R.509b; “ἐλπίδος ἐ.” Hld.9.5.
2. with Art., τὸ ἐ., Att. τοὐπ., or τὰ ἐ., Att. τἀπ., the part beyond, the far side, “τὰ ἐ. τῆς Εὐρώπης” Hdt.3.115, cf. Th.6.63, etc.; τοὐπέκεινα τῆσδε γῆς beyond it, E.Hipp.1199; “Πίνδου τε τἀπ.” A.Supp.257, cf. X.HG5.1.10; abs., “οἱ ἐκ τοῦ ἐ.” Id.An. 5.4.3; “ἐν τῷ ἐ.” Th.7.58; “τῶν νόθων [ἡδονῶν] εἰς τὸ ἐ. ὑπερβάς” Pl.R. 587c; “τὸ ἐ. τοῦ νοῦ” Porph.Sent.25, Jul.Or.4.132c.
II. of past Time, οἱ ἐ. χρόνοι the times beyond or before, earlier times, Isoc.6.41; οἱ ἐ. (sc. τῶν Τρωϊκῶν γενόμενοι) Id.9.6.
2. of future Time, henceforth, LXX 1 Ma.10.30, Thd.Su.64.
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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