A.without plan or purpose, at random, at a venture, Xenoph. 2.13, Heraclit.47, Hp.Epid.7.9, A.Pr.450,885, Ar.Eq.431, D.28.5; “εἰ. ζῆν” S.OT979; “πράττειν” Pl.Prt.326d; “λέγεσθαι” Id.Ap.17c, etc.; “νήφων παρ᾽ εἰ. λέγοντας” Arist.Metaph.984b17, etc.; “ἄρμενα εἰ. ἀποκλασθέντα” Theoc.22.14.
II. in vain, PLips.104.29 (i B. C.), 1 Ep.Cor.15.2, al.
III. slightly, moderately, “ἀγγεῖα εἰ. πεπυρωμένα” Agatharch.61. (Prob. for ἐϝεκῇ 'at will', cf. ἑκών.)
