ἕκητι: Difference between revisions

|Definition=Dor. [[ἕκατι]] (so always used by Trag., as [[Euripides|E.]], ''[[Orestes|Or.]]''26,al.): prob. an old case-form, used adverbially, but always with a gen., which usually precedes,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[by the will of]], [[by means of]], [[by virtue of]], Hom. only in Od. (in Il. he uses [[ἰότητι]], but cf. [[ἀέκητι]]), and always of gods, <b class="b3">Διός..ἕκητι</b> [[by the grace]] or [[aid]] of [[Zeus]], Od.20.42; Ἑρμείαο ἕ. 15.319; Ἀπόλλωνός γε ἕ. 19.86; Διὸς ἕ. B.1.6; Παλλάδος καὶ Λοξίου ἕκατι A.''Eu.''759, cf. ''Ch.''214; <b class="b3">ἕ. μὲν δαιμόνων, ἕ. δ' ἀμᾶν χερῶν</b> ib.436 (lyr.).<br><span class="bld">II</span> in Lyr. and Trag. of things,<br><span class="bld">1</span> [[on account of]], [[for the sake of]], ἕκατι ποδῶν Pi.''N.''8.47; κεδνῶν ἕκατι πραγμάτων A.''Ch.'' 701; ἀρετῆς ἕ. S.''Ph.''669, cf. ''Tr.''274,353; γάμων ἕ. E.''Med.''1235: in Com., ὧν ἕ. τοῦτ' ἔδωκε Telecl.41.4.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[as to]], πλήθους ἕ. [[Aeschylus|A.]]''[[The Persians|Pers.]]'' 337; κελευμάτων δ' ἕ. E.''Cyc.''655; <b class="b3">ἐμεῦ μὲν ἕκητι</b> [[so far as]] I [[am concerned]], AP11.361.7 (Autom.); <b class="b3">ἕκητ' ἀλκῆς</b> [[as far as]] strength [[goes]], Herod.2.77: in later Prose, βιβλίων ἕ. Jul. ''Or.''3.124a, cf.119c.<br><span class="bld">III</span> = [[χωρίς]], [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]] (Perh. cogn. with [[ἑκών]].)