A.heart, “κῆρ γηθεῖ ἐνὶ στήθεσσι” Il.14.139; “κ. ἄχνυται ἐν θυμῷ” 6.523, cf. 7.428; “ἄλλα δέ οἱ κ. ὅρμαινε φρεσὶν ᾗσιν” Od.18.344, cf. 7.82; “τῶ κε . . αἶψα μεταστρέψειε νόον μετὰ σὸν καὶ ἐμὸν κ.” Il.15.52; “θαλέων ἐμπλησάμενος κ.” 22.504, cf. 19.319; τοῦ δ᾽ οὔ ποτε κυδάλιμον κ. ταρβεῖ, of a boar or lion, 12.45: dat. κῆρι as Adv., with all the heart, heartily, “ὅν τε Ζεὺς κῆρι φιλήσῃ” 9.117: mostly strengthd., περὶ κ. φιλεῖν ῾περὶ Adv., either exceedingly or throughout) 13.430; “περὶ κ . . . τιμᾶν τινα” Od.5.36, etc.; “ἀπέχθωνται περὶ κ.” Il.4.53; “περὶ κ . . . ἐχολώθη” 13.206; νεμεσσῶμαι π. κῆρι ib.119; for λάσιον κ. v. λάσιος; later κῆρ ἄσᾳ βόρηται dub. in Sapph.Supp.25.18; “ἐμὸν κέαρ οὐ γεύεται ὕμνων” Pi.I.5(4).20, cf. N. 7.102, B.16.108, etc.; “κέαρ ἀπαράμυθον” A.Pr.187 (lyr.); ἠλγύνθην, ἠχθέσθην κέαρ, ib.247, 392, etc.; paratrag., “τὸ κέαρ ηὐφράνθην” Ar. Ach.5. (With nom. κῆρ cf. OPruss. seyr, Arm. sirt, 'heart', I.-E. [kcirc ]ērd- (cf. καρδία）; κέαρ is perh. a later formation on the analogy of ἔαρ: ἦρ.)
κῆρ , τό, perh.contr.from κέαρ (sed v. infr.); Hom. always κῆρ, dat. κῆρι, Adv. κηρόθι (q.v.); Trag.always κέαρ (no other case):—
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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