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ἐναγής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐναγής ἐναγές

Structure: ἐναγη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: = e)n a(/gei w)/n,

Sense

  1. under a curse, excommunicate, accurst

Examples

  • ἀλλὰ θεόσ τε οὕτωσ ἐνάγει καὶ αὐτοῖσ ἡμῖν πολλὰ ἐπιοῦσι συμφέρεται ἐπὶ τὸ ἄμεινον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 41 2:4)
  • οὐ γὰρ φασὶ οἰκὸσ εἶναι θεὸν ἐξευρίσκειν τοῦτον ὅστισ μαίνεσθαι ἐνάγει ἀνθρώπουσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 79 3:2)
  • ἀλλὰ περὶ μὲν χώρησ ἄρα οὐ πολλῆσ οὐδὲ οὕτω χρηστῆσ καὶ οὔρων σμικρῶν χρεόν ἐστι ὑμέασ μάχασ ἀναβάλλεσθαι πρόσ τε Μεσσηνίουσ ἐόντασ ἰσοπαλέασ καὶ Ἀρκάδασ τε καὶ Ἀργείουσ, τοῖσι οὔτε χρυσοῦ ἐχόμενον ἐστι οὐδὲν οὔτε ἀργύρου, τῶν πέρι καί τινα ἐνάγει προθυμίη μαχόμενον ἀποθνήσκειν· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 5, chapter 49 9:1)
  • ἦσαν δὲ καὶ τῶν μάντεων αἱ γνῶμαι κατὰ ταὐτὰ ἀμφοτέρων, Ἐπηβόλου καὶ Ὀφιονέωσ, μὴ σφᾶσ ἀνδρὶ ἐναγεῖ καὶ θυγατρὸσ μίασμα ἐπικειμένῳ δοῦναι τὴν Αἰπύτου καὶ τῶν ἀπογόνων τιμήν· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 10 9:3)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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