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ἐκτεν-ής

ektenes

strained, warmly attached, friendly, assiduous

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What it meant

1. ἐκτεν-ής · ekten-ēs — LSJ

strained, warmly attached, friendly, assiduous

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 UPZ 110.46(ii B. C.).

2 extended, capable of extension

extended, Dam. Pr. 64; capable of extension, ἐ. ἐστι τὸ μεταδίδον τῶν ἑαυτοῦ καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις Herm. in Phdr. p.121A.

3 abundant

abundant, γάλα Sor. 1.94.

II earnestly, zealously

Adv. -νῶς (Elean ἐκτενέωρ GDI 1172.12; Cret. ἐκτενίως ib. 5138.13; Ion. -έως Ps.-Hdt. Vit.Hom. 7) earnestly, zealously, ἀγαπᾶσθαι Macho ap. Ath. 13.579e; ποιεῖν τι Arist. MM 1210a27; συναγωνίζεσθαι IG 2(2).945, cf. SIG 538.17 (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 eagerly, freely, splendidly

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 CIG 2771ii14 (Aphrodisias): Comp., πολυτελῶς καὶ ἐκτενέστερον τῶν ἄλλων Agatharch. Fr.Hist. 6J.—Not in early writers, corrupt in A. Supp. 983.

2. Ἔκτηνες · Ektēnes — LSJ

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