A.before the feet, in the way, in one's path, κτείνειν πάντα τὸν ἐ. γενόμενον every one that came in the way, Hdt.1.80; πᾶν ἔθνος τὸ ἐ. Id.2.102; “τοὺς αἰεὶ ἐ. γινομένους” Id.4.118, cf.7.108; τὸ μὴ ἐ. those who are absent, Th. 2.45; μή που λαθών τις ἐ. (sc. γενόμενος) Ar.V.247.
2. in one's way, i.e. presenting an hindrance, ὁ θεὸς . . [οἱ] “ἐ. ἕστηκε” Hdt.6.82; ὥς σφι τὸ ἐ. ἐγεγόνεε καθαρόν when all impediments had been cleared away, Id.7.183; τί τοὐμπ.; Ar.Lys.1161; οὐδὲν ἐ. [ἐστι] A.Pr.13; “ἐ. ἔστη δορί” Id.Th.1021; “παρεῖναι” S.OT445; “οὐδεὶς ἐ. κεῖται νόμος” E. Ion1047; “καθῆσθαι” Ar.Pax473; “σὺ δ᾽ ἡμῖν μηδὲν ἐ. γένῃ” E.Hec.372; “ἐ. τινι φῦναι” Id.Or.605: c. inf., “ἐ. εἶναι τῷ ποιεῖν” X.HG2.3.23; ἐ. γενέσθαι, εἶναί τινι μὴ πράττειν, prevent a person's doing, Ar.Pax315, Th.6.28, etc.; τί ἐ. μοι μὴ οὐ . .; what prevents my doing? X.Eq.11.13, cf. An.3.1.13; so ἐ. τὸ μὴ εἶναι ib.4.8.14; “ἐ. γίγνεσθαι τοῦ μὴ ὁρᾶν” Id.Cyr.2.4.23; ἐ. εἰ = ναι ἀλλήλοις τινός to hinder each other from a thing, ib.8.5.24, cf.Plu.Them.4, etc.; λόγων τίς ἐ.ὅδ᾽ ἔρχεται; E.Supp. 395; ποιεῖσθαι ἐ. τι to regard it as a hindrance, suffer it to hinder, Lys.13.88, X.Cyr.4.2.46, D.21.104.
3. in one's way, before one's eyes, manifest, πόθεν ἄρξομαι, ἐ. ἁπάντων ὄντων; And.4.10; “Χαρίτων ἱερὸν ἐ. ποιοῦνται” Arist.EN1133a3; “ἃ δ᾽ ἐ. μάλιστα ταῦθ᾽ ἥκω φράσων” E.Ph.706; ἡ ἐ. παιδεία everyday education, Arist.Pol.1337a39; “πολλοῖς ἐ. εἶναι καὶ γνωρίζεσθαι” Plb.2.17.1.
4. of Time, immediately, Polem.Hist.83.
