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ἑκάς , Adv.
A.afar, far off, Il.20.422, etc.; “οὐχ ἑκάς που” S.Ph.41 ; rare in Prose, Th.1.69,80 (and later, Nic.Dam.p.6D.) : c. gen., far from, far away from, “ἑ. Ἄργεος” Il.9.246, etc.: freq. following its case, 13.263, Od.14.496, al.; “οὐ Χαρίτων ἑ.” Pi.P.8.21, cf. E.Ph.907 ; “ἑ. ἀπὸ τείχεος” Il.18.256 ; “ἀπὸ τῆς νήσου ἑ.” Hdt.3.41.
2. Comp. “ἑκαστέρω” farther, Od.7.321, h.Bacch.29, Alc.Supp.5.8（ἐκ-), Hdt.6.108, E.HF1047 (lyr.), etc.: c. gen., Hdt.2.169, al. ; also ἑκαστοτέρω dub. in Theoc.15.7 : Sup. “ἑκαστάτω” farthest, Il.10.113, Hdt.4.33 : c. gen., “τοὺς ἑωυτῶν ἑ. οἰκημένους” farthest from.., Id.1.134 ; τῆς Λιβύης ἑ. ἦλθε to the farthest point of Libya, Id.4.204, cf.9.14.
II. of Time, ἑ. ἐών afar, i.e. long after, Pi.P.2.54 ; οὐχ ἑ. χρόνου in no long time, Hdt.8.144 ; “οὐχ ἑ.” A.Ag.1650. [α^ ; α_ only in Call.Ap.2, in arsi.] (Prob. from ἕ and -κάς as in ἀνδρακάς ; lit. 'by himself'.)
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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