[Meaning something which results] from intention. "Therefore we were (not) brought together on purpose."[1] And elsewhere: "as if on purpose."[2]
*)epi/thdes: e)k spoudh=s. ou)/koun e)pi/thdes cunele/ghmen. kai\ au)=qis: w(/sper e)pi/thdes.
The headword (extracted from the first quotation given but also illustrated by the second) is the neuter nominative/accusative singular of an adjective, used adverbially.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Ecclesiazusae 116 (web address 1), with scholion; but read
ou)kou=n rather than
ou)/koun, as the statement should be affirmative.
[2] cf.
Aristophanes,
Knights 1135-6 (web address 2), where the reading is
ei) tou/sd' e)pi/thdes w(/sper dhmosi/ous tre/feis "If you feed them on purpose like public slaves ..."
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