Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ἐγγύς

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I. of Place, near, nigh, at hand: freq. in Hom., “ἐ. γὰρ νυκτός τε καὶ ἤματός εἰσι κέλευθοι” Od.10.86: c. gen., hard by, near to; so λύπας ἐγγυτέρω nearer to grief, S.OC1217: c. dat., Il.11.340, E.Heracl.37; ἐγγὺς ὁδῷ dub. in IG12.974: mostly with Verbs of rest, ἐ. ἑστάναι, παρεστάναι, A.Pers.686, Eu.65; but “ἐ. χωρεῖν” Id.Th.59: c. gen., “οἱ ἐγγυτάτω τῆς ἀγορᾶς κατεσκευασμένοι” Lys.24.20, etc.

II. of Time, nigh at hand, Il.22.453; “ἐ. ἡμῖν ὁ ἀγών” X.Cyr.2.3.2.

III. of Numbers, etc., nearly, “ἔτεσι ἐ. εἴκοσι” Th.6.5; “μισθὸς ἐ. ἐνιαυτοῦ” X.HG3.1.28: generally, nearly, almost, “ἐ. ἔγνως” S.Ichn.301; οὐδ᾽ ἐ. τινος not nearly, i. e. not by a great deal, nothing like it, Pl.Smp.198b; ἔχει οὐχ οὕτω ταῦτα οὐδ᾽ ἐ. not so . . nor yet nearly so, D.21.30; “οὐκ ἐποίουν τοῦτο, οὐδ᾽ ἐ.” Id.18.96; mostly, Hp.Mochl.34.

IV. of Qualities, coming near, “ἐ. τι καὶ παραπλήσιον” Pl.Grg.520a; ἐγγύτατα τοῦ νῦν τρόπου, τῆς ξυμπάσης γνώμης, Th.1.13,22; “ὅτι ἐγγύτατα τούτων” Id.7.86; “κοινῇ δὲ πᾶσιν οὐδεὶς ἐγγυτέρω” D.18.288; “δοκεῖς δηλῶσαι ἐγγύτατα τὴν ῥητορικήν” Pl.Grg.452e; ἐ. εἶναι, c. gen., Id.Phd.116b; “ἐ. τυφλῶν” Id.R. 508c; ἐ. τι τείνειν τοῦ τεθνάναι very near death, Id.Phd.65a; “κακῶς παθεῖν ἐγγύτατα” D.21.123.

V. of Relationship, akin to, “οἱ Ζηνὸς ἐ.” A.Fr.162; ἐγγυτέρω γένει or γένους, Pl.Ap.30a, Is.3.72; “ἐγγύτατα γένους” A.Supp.388, Lys.Fr.41, Pl.Hp.Ma.304d; “ἐγγυτάτω γένους” IG12.77, Ar.Av.1666.

Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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- Demosthenes, Against Midias, 123
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- Homer, Iliad, 11.340
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- Isaeus, Pyrrhus, 72
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- Plato, Republic, 508c
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- Plato, Phaedo, 116b
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- Thucydides, Histories, 6.5
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- Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 2.3.2
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