LogeionPerseus analysis of ἕνεκ':
ἕνεκα,ἕνεκα (on account of): indeclform (prep)
LSJ entry
ἕνεκα
ἕνεκα,
Il. 1.110,
etc., or ἕνεκεν (twice in Hom.,
Od. 17.288,
310,
rare in Trag., as E. Med. 999 (lyr.), and early Prose, Th. 6.2,
X. HG 2.1.14,
Pl. Smp. 210e;
in Com., Men. Epit. 330;
twice in fourth-cent. Att. Inscrr., IG 2.987A2, 611b13, but prevalent in later Inscrr., cf. SIG 577.7
(Milet., iii/ii B.C.);
in late Prose, Sch.Pi. O. 7.10),
Ep.,
Ion.,
and poet. εἵνεκα (also in Pl., Lg. 778d,
al.), or εἵνεκεν (both forms in Hdt. and Hp. and not uncommon in codd. of later writers; εἵνεκεν B. 12.136,
Pi. I. 8(7).35 codd.; εἵνεκε Aret. CA 1.2,
f.l. in Hdt. 7.133):
ἕνεκε SIG 333.14
(Samos, iv B.C.),
Supp.Epigr. 1.351.10
(ibid.), CIG 3655.18
(Cyzicus, iii/ii B.C.):
Aeol. ἔννεκα Alc. Supp. 9.1,
IG 12(2).258.8
(Lesbos, i A.D.),
but ἔνεκα ib. 11(4).1064b32 (
Delos),
12(1).645a38 (
Nesus):
late ἕνεκον JHS 37.108 (
Lydia),
etc.:—1. on account of, Τρώων πόλιν . . ἧς εἵνεκʼ ὀϊζύομεν κακὰ πολλά Il. 14.89,
etc.; ὕβριος εἵνεκα τῆσδε 1.214;
τοῦδʼ ἕνεκα for this, ib.110;
ὧν ἕ. wherefore, 20.21;
τίνος ἕ. βλάβης; A. Fr. 181;
παῖσαι ἄνδρας ἕνεκεν ἀταξίας X. An. 5.8.13;
στεφανοῦσθαι ἀρετῆς ἕνεκα Aeschin. 3.10;
for the sake of, τοῦ ἕ.; Pl. Prt. 310b;
τῶν δὲ εἵνεκα, ὅκως . .,
or ἵνα . .,
Hdt. 8.35,
40;
κολακεύειν ἕ. μισθοῦ X. HG 5.1.17;
διὰ νόσον ἕ. ὑγιείας by reason of sickness for the sake of health, Pl. Ly. 218e,
cf. Smp. 185b;
τὸ οὗ ἕ. the final cause, Arist. Ph. 194a27,
Metaph. 983a31;
τὸ οὗ ἕνεκεν Id. Ph. 243a3,
Metaph. 1059a35.