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ἐνόδιος , α, ον, Ep. εἰνόδιος , η, ον Il.16.260, and so Trag. in lyr., in fem. εἰνοδία: Thess. Ἐννοδία IG9(2).358, 1286; later ος, ον Paus. 3.14.9:—
A.in or on the way, σφήκεσσιν ἐοικότες . . εἰνοδίοις like wasps that have their nests by the way-side, Il.16.260; ἐ. σύμβολοι omens seen on the way, portending good or ill success, A.Pr.487; “πόλεις” Plu.Aem.8; “στάσεις σκηνῶν” Id.Ant.9; “ὅπλα” for use by the way, D.H. 4.48.
2. Subst. ἐνόδια, τά, nets for stopping the pathways, X.Cyn. 6.9.
b. blisters caused by walking, Thphr.Sud.15.
II. epith. of divinities, who had their statues by the way-side or at cross-roads, most freq. of Hecate, “εἰνοδίας Ἑκάτης” S.Fr.535.2; also of Persephone, “ἐνοδία θεός” Id.Ant.1199; “εἰνοδία θυγάτηρ Δάματρος” E.Ion 1048; “δαίμων ἐνοδία” IG14.1390; and Ἐνοδία alone, Hp.Morb.Sacr. 1, E.Hel.570, AP6.199 (Antiphil.), IGIl.cc.; “ἡ Ἐνόδιος” Paus. l. c., v.l. in Hp.l.c.; also of Hermes, Theoc.25.4, etc.
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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