A.“εὐνῆφι, -φιν” Od.2.2, al.:—bed, “εὐνῇ ἔνι μαλακῇ” Il.9.618, etc.; “ἔβη εἰς εὐνήν” Od. 1.427, etc.; “ὄρνυτ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἐξ εὐνῆφιν” Od.2.2, al.: in Cret. Prose, “εὐνά” Schwyzer 180.
2. bedding, dist.fr. λέχος (the bedstead), “λέχος πόρσυνε καὶ εὐνήν” Od.3.403; “ἐκθεῖσαι πυκινὸν λέχος ἐμβάλετ᾽ εὐνήν” 23.179; cf. ἐνεύναιος.
3. εὐναὶ νυμφάων their abode, Il.24.615; of animals, “συφεοὺς δυοκαίδεκα ποίει . . εὐνὰς συσί” Od.14.14; lair of a deer, 4.338, Il.11.115; [“νεβρὸν] ἐξ εὐνῆφι θορόντα” 15.580; form of a hare, X.Cyn. 6.16; nest, S.Ant.425; κριοῦ εὐναί, a place in Colchis where the ram of Phrixus rested, A.R.4.116.
4. marriage-bed, “μεμνημένος οὔτε τι σίτου οὔτ᾽ εὐνῆς” Il.24.130; “εὐνῆς ἐπιβήμεναι” 9.133; “ἐξ εὐνῆς ἀνστᾶσα” 14.336; usu. with some word added to denote this, “ἔτλην ἀνέρος εὐνήν” 18.433; “ἀνδρὸς ἐν εὐνῇ ἤθελον εὐνηθῆναι” Od.4.333; “ἀπανήνασθαι θεοῦ εὐνήν” 10.297; “ἐμίγην φιλότητι καὶ εὐνῇ” Il.3.445, etc.; “ζαλωτὸν ὁμόφρονος εὐνᾶς” Pi.O.7.6; “εὐναῖς ἀνανδρώτοισι” S.Tr.109 (lyr.); εὐναὶ γαμήλιοι, νυμφίδιοι, κρύφιαι, E.Med.1027, Alc.886 (anap.), El.720 (lyr.); without such a word, “Διὸς εὐναί” Pi.P.2.27; ἄλλην τιν᾽ εὐνὴν ἀντὶ σοῦ στέργει πόσις; E.Andr.907, cf. Hipp.1011; of Pyrrha and Deucalion, “ἄτερ εὐνᾶς κτισσάσθαν λίθινον γόνον” Pi.O.9.44; “ὅσιος ἀπ᾽ εὐνᾶς” E.Ion 150 (lyr.).
5. one's last bed, the grave, “ἔνθα σ᾽ ἔχουσιν εὐναί” A. Ch.318 (lyr.); “εἰς εὐνὴν πατρός” S.El.436; “Ἄϊδος εὐνάς” Epigr.Gr.431 (Antioch.) (so some take Τυφωέος εὐναί in Il.2.783).
II. pl. εὐναί, stones thrown out from the prow and used as anchors, “ἐκ δ᾽ εὐνὰς ἔβαλον, κατὰ δὲ πρυμνήσι᾽ ἔδησαν” Il.1.436, = Od.15.498; ὕψι δ᾽ ἐπ᾽ εὐνάων ὁρμίσσομεν we will let the ships ride at anchor in deep water, Il.14.77; “εὐνὰς δ᾽ ἔνθ᾽ ἔβαλον κατὰ βένθεος” Q.S.12.346; even of iron anchors, Sch.Il.1.436.—Rare in early Prose, X.Mem.3.11.8: in pl., Th.Il.cc., Pl.Prt.321a, R.415e, Plt.272a.
