[Remark: this dictionary entry has no valid XML/HTML content in database so a text version of this entry is shown.]: <b><G>ou(/neka</G></b> (<G>ou(= e(/neka</G>): (1) <i>wherefore</i>, (quamobrem), corresponding to <G>tou)/-</G> <pb n=216> <G>neka</G>, Il. 3.403.—(2) <i>because</i>, Il. 1.11, Od. 4.569. —(3) <i>that</i>, like <G>o(/ti</G>. (Od.)
, after τοῦδ' ἕνεκαIl.1.111; after τῷOd.13.332: but usu. without any antec. expressed, Il.1.11, etc.; οὕνεκ' ἄρα 7.140, 11.79; οὕ. δή 3.403, cf. Pi.N.9.36, A.Supp.639 (lyr.), Fr.374, S.Ph.586, al.; οὕνεκα πιστὸς ἔφυσIG12.1017; οὕνεκεν πλεῖ τὴν θάλασσανHerod.2.21. 3. like ὅτι,
that
, i.e.
the fact that
, after οἶδαOd.5.216; ἔγνωh.Ap.376; ἐνόησεOd.7.300; ἐρέει 16.379, cf. 330, 15.42; τόδε ..νεμέσσα 23.214: in Trag., after ἴσθιS.Ph.232; ἐννοεῖνId.Ant.63; μαθεῖνId.OT708; αἰσθάνεσθαιId.El.1478; λέγεινE.IA102. II.οὕνεκα (in this sense rarely οὕνεκεν, Herod.1.84), as Prep. c. gen., = simple ἕνεκα, εἵνεκα,
on account of, because of
, sts. following its case, Sol.37.5: freq. in Trag., as A.Pr.347, Ag.823, S.Ph.774, El.387, al. (S. never uses ἕνεκα); whereas reversely in Call., A.R.4.1523, and even in h.Ven. 199, εἵνεκα, ἕνεκα (q. v.) are used for οὕνεκα,
because.
— It has been suggested that the Ion. form εἵνεκα shd. be restd. for οὕνεκα, wherever it occurs as a Prep.; εἵνεκα occasionally occurs in Mss., as A.Supp. 188, Ar.Pax210, Lys.74, Ec.659: but οὕνεκα as a Prep. freq. occurs in Inscrr., IG12.802, 1037, 2.1334.11, etc.; οὕνεκεν χρόνου
in respect of
years, Poet. in PMich.Zen.77.9 (iii B. C.).— Poet. word, rare and late in Att. Prose, IG2 l.c. (iii A. D.), f.l. in Th.6.56, D.49.36,53, 59.39.