A.strained: hence of persons, warmly attached, friendly, Plb.21.22.4 (Sup.), cf. D.S.34.2.39, Socr. ap. Stob.4.31.130 ; assiduous, “περί τινα” Supp.Epigr.2.277.5 (Delph., ii B.C.): Comp. -“έστερος τῇ προθυμίᾳ” IGRom.4.293aii 38 (Pergam., ii B.C.): Sup. -“εστάτη προθυμία” Chrysipp.Stoic.2.293, cf. Vit.Philonid.p.9C.; “πρόνοια” UPZ110.46(ii B. C.).
2. extended, Dam.Pr.64; capable of extension, “ἐ. ἐστι τὸ μεταδίδον τῶν ἑαυτοῦ καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις” Herm.in Phdr.p.121A.
3. abundant, “γάλα” Sor.1.94.
II. Adv. -νῶς (Elean “ἐκτενέωρ” GDI 1172.12 ; Cret. ἐκτενίως ib.5138.13 ; Ion. -έως Ps.-Hdt.Vit.Hom.7) earnestly, zealously, ἀγαπᾶσθαι Machoap.Ath.13.579e; “ποιεῖν τι” Arist. MM1210a27 ; “συναγωνίζεσθαι” IG22.945, cf. SIG538.17 (Delph., iii B. C.); “εὐχὴ ἐ. γινομένη” Act.Ap.12.5 : Comp. -έστερον Cic.Att.13.9.1 : Sup.-έστατα D.S.29.4.
2. in Adv. also, eagerly, freely, splendidly (condemned by Phryn.285), “προσδέξασθαί τινα” Plb.8.19.1, cf. D.S. 2.24, etc.; of public duties, “λαμπρῶς καὶ ἐ. τετελεκότα” CIG2771ii14 (Aphrodisias): Comp., “πολυτελῶς καὶ ἐκτενέστερον τῶν ἄλλων” Agatharch. Fr.Hist.6J.—Not in early writers, corrupt in A.Supp.983.