οὕνεκα

English (LSJ)

and (usu. before a vowel) οὕνεκεν (first in Pi., v. infr.): relat. Conj. for οὗ ἕνεκα,

   A on account of which, wherefore, δὸς δ' . . ἐμὲ πρήξαντα νέεσθαι, οὕ. δεῦρ' ἱκόμεσθα Od.3.61; ἡ δ' Ἄτη σθεναρή τε καὶ ἀρτίπος, οὕ. πάσας . . ὑπεκπροθέει Il.9.505; οὕνεκεν τὸ πεποναμένον εὖ μὴ . . κρυπτέτω Pi.P.9.93.    2 correlat. to τοὔνεκα, because, after τοῦδ' ἕνεκα Il.1.111; after τῷ Od.13.332: but usu. without any antec. expressed, Il.1.11, etc.; οὕνεκ' ἄρα 7.140, 11.79; οὕ. δή 3.403, cf. Pi. N.9.36, A.Supp.639 (lyr.), Fr.374, S.Ph.586, al.; οὕνεκα πιστὸς ἔφυς IG12.1017; οὕνεκεν πλεῖ τὴν θάλασσαν Herod.2.21.    3 like ὅτι, that, i.e. the fact that, after οἶδα Od.5.216; ἔγνω h.Ap.376; ἐνόησε Od.7.300; ἐρέει 16.379, cf. 330, 15.42; τόδε . . νεμέσσα 23.214: in Trag., after ἴσθι S.Ph.232; ἐννοεῖν Id.Ant.63; μαθεῖν Id.OT708; αἰσθάνεσθαι Id.El.1478; λέγειν E.IA102.    II οὕνεκα (in this sense rarely οὕνεκεν, Herod.1.84), as Prep. c. gen., = simple ἕνεκα, εἵνεκα, on account of, because of, sts. following its case, Sol.37.5: freq. in Trag., as A.Pr.347, Ag.823, S.Ph.774, El.387, al. (S. never uses ἕνεκα); whereas reversely in Call., A.R.4.1523, and even in h.Ven. 199, εἵνεκα, ἕνεκα (q. v.) are used for οὕνεκα, because.—It has been suggested that the Ion. form εἵνεκα shd. be restd. for οὕνεκα, wherever it occurs as a Prep.; εἵνεκα occasionally occurs in Mss., as A.Supp. 188, Ar.Pax210, Lys.74, Ec.659: but οὕνεκα as a Prep. freq. occurs in Inscrr., IG12.802, 1037, 2.1334.11, etc.; οὕνεκεν χρόνου in respect of years, Poet. in PMich.Zen.77.9 (iii B. C.).—Poet. word, rare and late in Att. Prose, IG2 l.c. (iii A. D.), f.l. in Th.6.56, D.49.36,53, 59.39.

German (Pape)

[Seite 415] u. vor einem Vocal οὕνεκεν, – 1) = οὗ ἕνεκα, weswegen, weshalb, Od. 3, 61; gew. deswegen weil, weil, Hom., bei dem es theils dem Demonstrativum τοὔνεκα entspricht, wie Il. 3, 403. 405, οὕνεκα δὴ νῦν – τοὔνεκα δὴ νῦν, vgl. Hes. Th. 88, auch Il. 11, 21, u. τοῦδ' ἕνεκα 1, 111, wie τῷ Od. 13, 332, theils ohne solche Beziehung gesetzt ist; οὕνεκ' ᾤκτισαν ἡμᾶς, Aesch. Suppl. 630; οὗτος δέ μοι φίλος μέγιστος, οὕνεκ' Ἀτρείδας στυγεῖ, Soph. Phil. 582; O. C. 34 u. öfter; οὕνεκεν, Pind. N. 9, 36; Parmenid. 95. – Auch zum Ausdruck eines Objectivsatzes, ganz wie ὅτι, daß, nach οἶδα, Od. 5, 216, wie Soph. Phil. 232; νοεῖν, Od. 7, 300; ἐρεῖν, 16, 379; νεμεσᾶν, 23, 214; γνῶναι, h. Apoll. 376; ὁρῶ, Soph. Phil. 828; μανθάνω, O. R. 708; ἐξαγγέλλω, O. C. 1397; αἰσθάνομαι, El. 1470. Es ist mit dem indicat. verbunden. – 2) = ἕνεκα, wegen, cum gen., oft bei den Tragg. u. Ar.; γυναικὸς οὕνεκα, Aesch. Ag. 797; Soph. Phil. 1027 O. R. 383 Ai. 321 u. öfter; auch, wie ἕνεκα, in Ansehung, was anbetrifft, τοῦδέ γ' οὕνεκα κήρυσσε El. 595, νῦν δ' ἕκηλά που τῶν τῆσδ' ἀπειλῶν οὕνεχ' ἡμερεύσομεν 727, θάρσει προνοίας γ' οὕνεκ'· οὐ δοθήσεται Phil. 763; Eur. Or. 84 u. öfter; wie sich Aesch. Prom. 345 Suppl. 185 die v. l. εἵνεκα findet, so auch Ar. Pax 210 Lys. 74 (vgl. εἵνεκα), – selten in Prosa, wie Dem. 59, 39.