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|auten=([[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.<br />[[for]] words compounded [[with]] ἐς, see [[under]] [[εἰς]]-.

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