εἴσω: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[[ἔσω]], used by Ep., Lyr., and Trag. Poets acc. as a spondee or iambus is required; [[ἔσω]] (as ἐς for εἰς) prevailed in Ion. and old Att. Prose; but in other Prose and in Com. [[εἴσω]] was the only form admitted, whereas [[ἔσωθεν]] with the Comp. and Sup. [[ἐσώτερος]], [[ἐσώτατος]], [[ἐσωτέρω]], [[ἐσωτάτω]], seem to have been the only forms in use:—Adv. of εἰς, [[ἐς]],<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[to within]], [[into]]: abs., <b class="b3">μή πού τις ἐπαγγείιῃσι καὶ εἴσω</b> lest some one may carry the news [[into the house]], Od.4.775, cf. [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]1. III, al.; so εἴπατε δ' εἴσω Od.3.427; also <b class="b3">εἴσω δ' ἀσπίδ' ἔαξε</b> he brake it through [[to the inside]], Il. 7.270; so ὀστέα δ' εἴσω ἔθλασεν Od.18.96; εἴσω ἐπιγράψαι τέρενα χρόα Il.13.553; ἐσσύμενοι εἴσω Pi.''P.''4.135; εἴσω κομίζου A.''Ag.''1035; <b class="b3">πέπληγμαι..ἔσω</b> ib.1343; εἴσω.. δεῦρ' εἴσιθ' Ar. ''Pl.''231; <b class="b3">ἡγεῖσθαι εἴσω, φεύγειν εἴσω</b>, [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''2.3.21, 7.5.26; παρακαλέσαι εἴσω Id.''An.''1.6.5.<br><span class="bld">b</span> when a case follows, Hom. prefers the acc., δῦναι δόμον Ἄϊδος εἴσω Il.3.322; πέρησε δ' ἄρ' ὀστέον εἴσω αἰχμή 6.10, etc.; ἡγήσατο.. Ἴλιον εἴσω 1.71, etc.; more rarely with [[genitive]], κατελθόντ' Ἄϊδος εἴσω 6.284, cf. 22.425; ἐβήσετο δώματος εἴσω Od.7.135, cf. 8.290; so in Prose and Trag., Κύκλωπος ἔσω βλεφάρων ὤσας E. ''Cyc.''485; it generally follows its case, but precedes in Il.21.125, 24.155, Od.8.290.<br><span class="bld">2</span> with Verbs of Rest, = [[ἔνδον]], [[inside]], [[within]], εἴσω δόρπον ἐκόσμει 7.13; ἄντρον ἔσω ναίουσα ''h.Merc.''6; ἔσω καθῆσθαι A.''Ch.''919; θακεῖν [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Ajax|Aj.]]''105; οὔτε πύργος οὔτε ναῦς ἔρημος ἀνδρῶν μὴ ξυνοικούντων ἔσω Id.''OT''57; <b class="b3">τὸ ἔσω μέτωπον</b> the [[inner]] front, Th.3.21; τὰ εἴσω νενοσηκότα σώματα [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Republic|R.]]'' 407d; εἴσω τὴν χεῖρα ἔχειν ἀναβεβλημένον D.19.251.<br><span class="bld">b</span> c. gen., μένειν εἴσω δόμων A. ''Th.''232; <b class="b3">γλῶσσαν εἴσω πυλῶν ῥέουσαν</b> ib.557; εἴσω στέγης S.''Tr.''202; <b class="b3">εἴσω ξίφους</b> [[within reach]] of [[sword]], [[Euripides|E.]]''[[Orestes|Or.]]''1531; <b class="b3">εἴσω τῶν ὅπλων</b> [[within]] the heavy-armed [[troops]], i.e. [[encircled by]] them, X.''An.''3.3.7, 3.4.26; <b class="b3">εἴσω τῶν ὀρέων</b> [[within]], i.e. [[on this side of]], the [[mountain]]s, ib. 1.2.21; <b class="b3">ἔσω τούτων</b> [[inside of]] these [[people]], i.e. [[farther inland]], Th.2.100; <b class="b3">εἴσω βέλους</b> [[within]] bow-shot, Arr.''An.''1.6.8; <b class="b3">τὰ δένδρα τῆς ὁδοῦ ποιεῖν εἴσω</b>, i.e. [[inside]], i.e. [[by the side of]], the road, D.55.22; εἴσω τῆς εἰρωνείας ἀφικνεῖσθαι Id.''Prooemia'' 14; πάντα εἴσω τῆς συμφορᾶς Lib.''Or.''61.18.<br><span class="bld">II</span> later of [[time]], [[within]], εἴσω ἡμερῶν εἴκοσι ''PGiss.''34.6 (iii A.D.), Hermog.''Stat.''8,Arg.2 [[Aristophanes|Ar.]]''[[The Knights|Eq.]]''<br><span class="bld">III</span> for Comp. and Sup., v. [[ἔσω]].