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κενός , ή, όν, Ion. and poet. κεινός Il.3.376, 4.181, 11.160, 15.453, Pi.O.2.65, 3.45, Hdt.1.73, al.; Ep. also κενεός , as always in Hom. (exc. in Il.ll.cc., and
A.“κενός” Od.22.249 (s.v.l., fort. κενέ᾽ εὔγματα or κείν᾽ εὔγματα)), also Hp.Aph.7.24, Meliss.7, Timo 20.2 (Comp.), and in Dor., IG42(1).121.73 (Epid., iv B.C.); Aeol. κέννος , acc. to Greg. Cor.p.610 S.: Sup. κεννότατος Sch.Tz.in An.Ox.3.356.18; but οἱ Αἰολεῖς . . οὐ λέγουσι κέννος Choerob.in An.Ox.2.242, cf. Hdn.Gr.2.302, and the true Aeol. is prob. κένος or κένεος, from *κενϝος, κενεϝος, cf. Cypr. κενευϝός Schwyzer683.4.
I. mostly of things, empty, opp. πλέως, Ar.Eq.280; opp. πλήρης, Id.Nu.1054; opp. μεστός, Diph.12; “κενεὰς σὺν χεῖρας ἔχοντες” Od.10.42; “νοστήσαντας κεινῇσι χερσί” Hdt.1.73; “κεναῖς χερσίν” Pl.Lg.796b (v. infr. 11.2); τὸ κ. (sc. τάλαντον) the empty one, Ar.Fr.488.5; “κ. οἴκησις” S.Ph.31; “γῆ” Id.OT55; “εὐνή” Id.Ant.424; χώματα κεινά, = κενοτάφια, Hdt.9.85; “κ. τάφος” E.Hel.1057; κατέθισαν ἐπὶ κενευϝῶν (sc. τάφων gen. sg.) Schwyzer l.c. (Cypr.); κ. χρόνος a pause in music, Anon.Bellerm.83; “σφυγμὸς κ.” Agathin. ap. Gal.8.936; of wool and wine, dub. sens. in Archig. ap. Gal.8.945; τὸ κ. the void of space, Democr.9, Meliss.l.c., Emp.13,al., Epicur.Ep.1p.6U., etc.; τὸ κ., = τόπος ἐστερημένος σώματος, Arist.Ph.208b26, cf.213a13 sqq., Cael.279a13; “κ. χώρα” Pl.Ti.58a; ἢν κενεὸν λάβῃ [ἡ διακοπή] if it penetrates the (brain-) cavity, Hp.Aph. l.c.; esp.Astrol., not occupied by a planet, “κ. δρόμος” Man.2.452, cf.Vett. Val.94.27; cf. κενοδρομέω.
2. empty, fruitless, void, “κενὰ εὔγματα εἰπών” Od.22.249 (v. supr.); ἐλπίς, ἐλπίδες, Simon.5.16, A.Pers.804; “γνώμα” Pi.N.4.40, cf. S.Ant.753; “ἔξοδοι” Id.Aj.287; “φροντίδες” Id.Fr.949; τέρψις ib.577; “φόβοι” E.Supp.548, cf.X.An.2.2.21; “φρόνημα” Pl.R.494d, etc.; “κ. πρόφασις καὶ ψευδής” D.18.150; “λοιδορία κ.” Id.2.5; μάταιον καὶ κ. ib.12; κενὸν ἆρα καὶ τὸ φάρμακον πρὸς τὸ κ. prob. in Men.530.19; ἀπόντων κενὴν κατηγορεῖν bring an idle charge, Arist.Resp.470b12; ineffectual, “λύγξ” Th.2.49; πουλυμαθημοσύνης, τῆς οὐ κενεώτερον ἄλλο Timo l.c.; “πολλὰ κ. τοῦ πολέμου” Arist.EN1116b7; “κ. δόξαι” Epicur. Sent.15; ἐπιθυμίαι, opp. φυσικαί, Id.Ep.3p.62U., Diog.Oen.59; “κ. ὀρέξεις” Metrod.Herc.831.16; freq.in adverbial usages, neut.pl., “κενεὰ πνεύσαις” Pi.O.10(11).93; ἡ διὰ κενῆς ἐπανάσεισις τῶν ὅπλων empty flourishing of arms, Th.4.126; διὰ κενῆς ῥίπτειν throw without a projectile, Arist.Pr.881a39; κεκλάγγω διὰ κενῆς ἄλλως to no purpose, Ar. V.929; “μάτην διὰ κ.” Pl.Com.174.21; “οὐ μαχοῦμαί σοι διὰ κ.” Men.Sam. 260; “ἐν κενοῖς” S.Aj.971; “κατὰ κενῆς” Procl.in Ti.2.167 D.; “εἰς κενόν” D.S. 19.9, Hld.10.30; “εἰς κ. ἡ δαπάνη” IG14.1746; “εἰς κ. μοχθεῖν” Men.Mon. 51; κατὰ κενοῦ χανεῖν Suid.s.v. λύκος ἔχανεν; κατὰ κενοῦ φέρειν τὰς χεῖρας Ph.1.153; κατὰ κ. βαίνειν, = κενεμβατεῖν, Plu.2.463c: regul. Adv. “κενῶς, διαλεκτικῶς καὶ κ.” Arist.de An.403a2; “λογικῶς καὶ κ.” Id.EE1217b21; “μὴ κ. πόνει” Men.1101, cf. Epicur.Ep.3p.61U., Polystr. p.7 W., Arr.Epict.2.17.6, Plu.2.35e.
II. of persons and things,
1. c.gen., destitute, bereft, “τοῦ νοῦ” S.OC931; “φρενῶν” Id.Ant.754; “δακρύων” E.Hec.230; “συμμάχων κ. δόρυ” Id.Or.688; “πεδίον κ. δένδρων” Pl.R.621a; κ. φρονήσεως, ἐπιστήμης, Id.Ti.75a, R.486c; κ. πόνου without the fruits of toil, A.Fr.241.
2. abs., empty-handed, “αἰσχρόν τοι δηρόν τε μενειν κενεόν τε νέεσθαι” Il.2.298, cf. Od.15.214; ἀπίκατο, οἱ μὲν κεινοί, οἱ δὲ φέροντες κτλ. Hdt.7.131; “κενὸς κενὸν καλεῖ” A.Th.353 (lyr.); “ἥκεις οὐ κενή” S.OC359, cf.Tr.495; “οὐθ᾽ ὑπεργέμων . . οὔτε κ.” Alex.216; of camels, without burdens, unloaded, opp. ἔγγομοι, OGI629.166 (Pal- myra, ii A.D.); “κ. ἂν ἴῃ . . , κ. ἄπεισιν” Pl.R.370e; “κ. τινὰ ἐξαποστεῖλαι” LXX Ge.31.42; bereft of her mate, “λέαινα” S.Aj.986; orphan, “Ἔρωτες” Bion 1.59; ὑπ᾽ ἄσθματος κενοί exhausted . . , A.Pers.484; of places, without garrison, “χῶραι” Aeschin.3.146, cf. Hdt.5.15; of the body, without flesh, Plu.2.831c.
b. devoid of wit, vain, pretentious, “κεινὸς εἴην” Pi.O.3.45; “διαπτυχθέντες ὤφθησαν κενοί” S.Ant.709; “ἀνόητον καὶ κ.” Ar.Ra.530, cf.Ep.Jac.2.20.
III. Comp. and Sup., “κενότερος” Stratt.10 D.; -ότατος D.27.25, Phld.Rh.1.67 S., al., cf. Choerob.in Theod.2.76, EM275.50; κενώτερος, -ώτατος, Pl.Smp.175d, v.l. in Arist.EN1107a30 (Comp.); κενεώτερος Timo (v. supr.); κενεώτατος v.l. in Hp.Acut.62.
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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