οὕνεκα

οὕνεκα, and (usu. before a vowel) [full] οὕνεκεν (first in Pi., v. infr.): relat. Conj. for οὗ ἕνεκα,

A on account of which, wherefore,

δὸς δ' . . ἐμὲ πρήξαντα νέεσθαι, οὕ. δεῦρ' ἱκόμεσθα Od.3.61

;

ἡ δ' Ἄτη σθεναρή τε καὶ ἀρτίπος, οὕ. πάσας . . ὑπεκπροθέει Il.9.505

;

οὕνεκεν τὸ πεποναμένον εὖ μὴ . . κρυπτέτω Pi.P.9.93

.

2 correlat. to τοὔνεκα, because, after

τοῦδ' ἕνεκα Il.1.111

; after

τῷ Od.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 ἔφυς IG12.1017

;

οὕνεκεν πλεῖ τὴν θάλασσαν Herod.2.21

.

3 like ὅτι, that, i.e. the fact that, after

οἶδα Od.5.216

;

ἔγνω h.Ap.376

;

ἐνόησε Od.7.300

;

ἐρέει 16.379

, cf. 330, 15.42;

τόδε . . νεμέσσα 23.214

: in Trag., after

ἴσθι S.Ph.232

;

ἐννοεῖν Id.Ant.63

;

μαθεῖν Id.OT708

;

αἰσθάνεσθαι Id.El.1478

;

λέγειν E.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 [dialect] 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 [dialect] Att. Prose, IG2 l.c. (iii A. D.), f.l. in Th.6.56, D.49.36,53, 59.39.