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ἕνεκʼ (henek)

ἕνεκʼ is an Ancient Greek form of ἕνεκα, meaning “on account of, for the sake of (+gen.)”. It is the preposition.

Found 83 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.1523: θαρσαλέως, ἕνεκʼ οὔ μιν ὑπέρβιον ἄλγος ἔτειρεν.

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 28.13: πέξαιντʼ αὐτοένει, Θευγένιδός γʼ ἔνεκʼ ἐυσφύρω·

Euripides, Andromache 105: ἇς ἕνεκ’, ὦ Τροία, δορὶ καὶ πυρὶ δηιάλωτον

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.