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[200] ἐνηέα, always used of close friends. Cp. Il.17. 204“τοῦ δὴ ἑταῖρον ἔπεφνες ἐνηέα τε κρατερόν τε”. Benfey supposes the word to have been originally “ἐνηνής” and so to be connected with “ἀπηνής”. Curtius is inclined to support Düntzer in referring it to root “αϝ” seen in “ἀίω”, ‘to understand’ or ‘listen to,’ others again would derive it from root “αϝ”, ‘to blow’ or ‘breathe’ as if the meaning of the epithet came from the metaphor of a favourable wind. That the word means ‘kind’ or ‘true’ admits of no doubt.

ἐν ἀγῶνι, ‘in the lists;’ so inf. 260 “καλὸν δ᾽ εὔρυναν ἀγῶνα. ἀγών”, like “ἀγορά”, means primarily nothing more than ‘assembly,’ from “ἄγω”, compare “λῦτο δ᾽ ἀγών” Il.24. 1, and see Lehrs, Aristarch. p. 149 ‘“Ἀγών” usurpatur pro “ἄγυρις, συναγωγή”, Il.8. 298“θεῶν ἀγών”, coll. 16. 500; 18. 376 “θεῖος ἀγών”. De “νεῶν ἀγών” cp. Il.16. 239 Il., 500.’

Homer's Odyssey. W. Walter Merry. James Riddell. D. B. Monro. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1886-1901.

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