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ἕκητι

eketi

by the will of, for the sake of (Od.). <1E *uek- ‘wish, want

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Where it lives

Libation Bearers 5 · 9.3/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 5 · 5.6/10k
Eumenides 2 · 3.82/10k
Rhesus 2 · 3.72/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 3 · 3.62/10k
Helen 3 · 3.07/10k
Orestes 3 · 3.06/10k
Trachiniae 2 · 2.75/10k
Electra 2 · 2.65/10k
Heracles 2 · 2.56/10k
Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
Works and Days 1 · 1.73/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. ἔκητι · ekēti — Beekes

ἔκητι [adv.] ‘by the will of, for the sake of (Od.). <1E *uek- ‘wish, want’> *VAR Also ἔκᾶτι. “ΟΟΜΡ ἀέκητι ‘against the will’ (Hom.). *ETYM Related to éxa-, ἑκών and ἀέκων, but the formation is unclear. See Leumann 1950: 251ff., who states that it was created after (θεῶν) ἰότητι for (θεῶν) ἀεκόντων. — [Beekes, s.v. ἔκητι, p. 445]

2. ἕκητι · hekēti — Frisk

ἕκητι, Exärı ‘nach dem Willen, um willen, wegen’ (poet. seit Od.), ἀέκητι "gegen den Willen’ (Hom., Hes. ΤᾺ. 529, B. 18, 9 [-ἀ-], A. R.). — Zu ἕκα-, ἑκών bzw. ἀέκων mit unklarer Bildungsweise. Nach Leumann Hom. Wörter 25lff. wurde (ϑεῶν) ἀέκητι zuerst von einem Rhapsoden für (ϑεῶν) ἀεκόντων nach dem Gegenstück (ϑεῶν) ἐότητι geschaffen; im Anschluß daran entstand ἕκητι, das von der Odyssee aus in der dorischen und … — [Frisk, s.v. ἕκητι, p. 509]

3. ἕκητι · hekēti — LSJ

by the will of, by means of, by virtue of, by the grace, aid

by the will of, by means of, by virtue of, Hom. only in Od. (in Il. he uses ἰότητι, but cf. ἀέκητι), and always of gods, Διός..ἕκητι by the grace or aid of Zeus, Od. 20.42 ; Ἑρμείαο ἕ. 15.319 ; Ἀπόλλωνός γε ἕ. 19.86 ; Διὸς ἕ. B. 1.6 ; Παλλάδος καὶ Λοξίου ἕκατι A. Eu. 759, cf. Ch. 214 ; ἕ. μὲν δαιμόνων, ἕ. δʼ ἀμᾶν χερῶν ib. 436 (lyr.).

in Lyr. and Trag. of things,

1 on account of, for the sake of

on account of, for the sake of, ἕκατι ποδῶν Pi. N. 8.47 ; κεδνῶν ἕκατι πραγμάτων A. Ch. 701 ; ἀρετῆς ἕ. S. Ph. 669, cf. Tr. 274, 353 ; γάμων ἕ. E. Med. 1235 : in Com., ὧν ἕ. τοῦτʼ ἔδωκε Telecl. 41.4.

2 as to, so far as, am concerned, as far as, goes

as to, πλήθους ἕ. A. Pers. 337 ; κελευμάτων δʼ ἕ. E. Cyc. 655 ; ἐμεῦ μὲν ἕκητι so far as I am concerned, AP 11.361.7 (Autom.) ; ἕκητʼ ἀλκῆς as far as strength goes, Herod. 2.77 : in later Prose, βιβλίων ἕ. Jul. Or. 3.124a, cf. 119c.

III

= χωρίς, Hsch. (Perh. cogn. with ἑκών.)

In the wild

ἕκατι · hekati Aeschylus, Agamemnon 874–876
ἕκατι · hekati Aeschylus, Eumenides 71–73
ἕκατι · hekati Aeschylus, Eumenides 756–761
ἕκατι · hekati Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 214
ἕκατι · hekati Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 700–701
ἕκατι · hekati Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 435–437

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Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ἕκητι (scan p. 445; entry #1969). Root candidates: *uek-.
Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ἕκητι (scan p. 344; entry #2366).
Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ἕκητι (scan p. 509; entry #1812).

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