ἐς
Ὁ δὲ μὴ δυνάμενος κοινωνεῖν ἢ μηδὲν δεόμενος δι' αὐτάρκειαν οὐθὲν μέρος πόλεως, ὥστε ἢ θηρίον ἢ θεός → Whoever is incapable of associating, or has no need to because of self-sufficiency, is no part of a state; so he is either a beast or a god
English (LSJ)
Ion., old Att., Dor. form of εἰς: all compounds must be sought under εἰσ-, except a few words which appear only in the form ἐσ-. II Arc., = ἐκ, IG5(2).6.49 (Tegea, iv B. C.), al. ; also Delph., BCH23.611, and Arg., IG4.492 (Mycenae, vi B. C.) ; v. ἐκ init.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1042] ion. u. altatt. für εἰς, w. m. s.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἐς: Ἰων. καὶ παλαιὸς Ἀττ. τύπος τῆς προθ. εἰς· ἅπαντα τὰ σύνθετα ζητητέον ἐν εἰσ-, πλὴν ὀλίγων Ἰων. καὶ Ἐπικῶν λέξ. ἀπαντωσῶν μόνον ἐν τῷ τύπῳ ἐσ-.
French (Bailly abrégé)
v. εἰς.
English (Autenrieth)
(εἰς before a consonant only in εἰσβαίνω): into.—I. adv. (the socalled ‘tmesis’), ἐς δ' ἦλθον, ἐς δ ἐρέτᾶς ἀγείρομεν, Il. 1.142; an acc. in the same clause may specify the relation of the adv., thus preparing the way for a true prepositional use, τὼ δ' εἰς ἀμφοτέρω Διομήδεος ἅρματα (acc. of end of motion) βήτην, Θ 11, Od. 2.152. —II. prep. w. acc., into, to, for; ἐς ἀλλήλους δὲ ἴδοντο, ‘towards’ each other, into each other's faces, Il. 24.484; of purpose, εἰπεῖν εἰς ἀγαθόν, ‘for’ a good end, Il. 9.102 ; εἰς ἄτην, ‘to’ my ruin, Od. 12.372; of time, εἰς ἐνιαυτόν, i. e. up to the end of a year, Od. 4.595; so εἰς ὅ κε, until; distributively, αἰεὶ εἰς ὥρᾶς, ‘season after season’ (cf. in dies), Od. 9.135. Apparently w. gen., by an ellipsis, εἰς Ἀιδᾶο (sc. δόμον), ἐς Πριάμοιο, and by analogy, εἰς Αἰγύπτοιο (sc. ὕδωρ), εἰς ἡμετέρου, Od. 2.55, etc.
for words compounded with ἐς, see under εἰς-.
