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|mdlsjtxt=[a neut. dat. (ἰῷ [[κίον]] ἤματἰ also occurs in Il.] [The orig. [[form]] was prob. !ενς, cf. Lat. [[unus]]. The fem. μία points to a [[second]] Root, cf. [[οἶος]] with [[μόνος]].]<br /><b class="num">1.</b> one, Hom., etc.; εἷς [[οἶος]], μία οἴη a [[single]] one, one [[alone]], Hom.; εἷς [[μόνος]] Hdt.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> with a Sup., like Lat. [[unus]] omnium [[maxime]], εἷς ἀνὴρ πλεῖστον πόνον παρασχών Aesch.; κάλλιστ' ἀνὴρ εἷς Soph.; πάντων εἷς ἀνὴρ τῶν μεγίστων [[αἴτιος]] κακῶν Dem.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> in oppos., made [[emphatic]] by the Art., ὁ εἷς, ἡ μία Hom., [[attic]]<br /><b class="num">4.</b> with a negat., εἷς [[οὐδείς]] [[nullus]] [[unus]], no [[single]] man, Hdt., Thuc.; οὐχ εἷς, i. e. [[more]] [[than]] one, Aesch.; and [[more]] [[emphatic]], οὐδὲ εἷς, [[μηδὲ]] εἷς, v. [[οὐδείς]], [[μηδείς]].<br /><b class="num">5.</b> εἷς [[ἕκαστος]] [[each]] one, [[each]] by [[himself]], Lat. [[unusquisque]], Hdt., Plat.<br /><b class="num">6.</b> often with [[κατά]], καθ' ἓν ἕκαστον [[each]] [[singly]], [[piece]] by [[piece]], Hdt., etc.; so, καθ' ἕνα, καθ' ἕν one by one, Plat.<br /><b class="num">7.</b> with [[other]] Preps., ἓν ἀνθ' [[ἑνός]] [[above]] all, Plat.: —ἓν πρὸς ἕν, in comparisons, Hdt., Plat.; εἷς πρὸς ἕνα Dem.: —παρ' ἕνα [[alternately]], Luc.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> one, i. e. the [[same]], εἷς καὶ [[ὅμοιος]] Plat.: c. dat. one with… , Eur.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> one, as opp. to [[another]]; so, ὁ μὲν… , εἷς δὲ… , εἷς δ' αὖ… , Od.; εἷς μέν… , [[ἕτερος]] δέ… , Xen.<br /><b class="num">IV.</b> [[indefinitely]], εἷς τις, [[some]] one, Lat. [[unus]] [[aliquis]], Soph., Plat.;—then [[alone]], like our indef. Art. a, an, (as [[faber]] [[unus]] Hor.), Eur.<br /><b class="num">V.</b> οὐδὲ εἷς οὐδὲ δύο not one or two only, Dem.