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|auten=in.—I. adv., in, [[therein]], [[among]] [[them]], Il. 5.740, etc.; esp. the [[form]] [[ἔνι]], [[for]] ἔνεστι, ἔνεισι, [[πολέες]] δ' [[ἔνι]] μῦθοι, Il. 20.248. Here belong [[all]] examples of ‘[[tmesis]]’ so-called, ἐν δ' ἔπεσε, ‘[[fell]] on’ the [[throng]], Il. 15.624. The adv. [[may]] be defined in its [[relation]] by a dative in the [[same]] [[clause]], [[thus]] showing an [[approach]] to the true prepositional [[use]], ἐν δέ τε θῦμὸς στήθεσιν ἄτρομός ἐστιν, in [[them]], viz., in [[their]] breasts, Il. 16.162.—II. prep. w. dat., in, on, [[among]]; [[not]] only of [[place]] and persons, ἐν Δαναοῖσι, ἐν ἆθανάτοισι, ἐνὶ στρατῷ, ἐν πᾶσιν, Od. 2.194; [[but]] [[also]] of conditions, [[physical]] and [[mental]], ἐν φιλότητι, ἐν πένθεϊ, ἐν δοιῇ, Il. 9.230. Of [[time]], ὥρῃ ἐν εἰαρινῇ, Π, Od. 18.367; [[instead]] of a causal or an [[instrumental]] [[expression]], ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς ὁρᾶν, Il. 1.587, Il. 3.306, Od. 10.385; κατακτείνεσθαι [[ἀνδρῶν]] ἐν παλάμῃσιν, Ε, Il. 24.738, etc.; [[often]] [[with]] verbs of [[motion]], the [[state]] of [[rest]] [[after]] [[motion]] [[taking]] the [[place]] of [[movement]] [[into]], ἐν [[γούνασι]] πίπτειν, Il. 5.370; ἐν χερσὶ τιθέναι, etc.; elliptical, ἐνὶ Κίρκης, sc. ὄικῳ, Od. 10.282, esp. [[εἰν]] Ἀίδᾶο. When [[ἐνί]] follows its [[case]], it is written [[ἔνι]] (‘[[anastrophe]]’), Il. 9.53.