ἐπεύνακτοι , ων, οἱ, (εὐνάζω) name for the Helots who were adopted into their lords' places during the Messenian wars, Theopomp.Hist. 166:—D.S.8Fr.21 writes ἐπευνακταί , and seems to identify them with the παρθενίαι (q. v.): Hsch. has ἐνεύνακτοι: οἱ παρθενίαι, and ἐπευνακταί: οἱ συγκοιμηταί.
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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