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τηνι^κ-αῦτα , commoner form for τηνίκα, answering to a Relat.,
A.at that time, then, “ἡνίκα . . , τηνικαῦτα . . ” X.Cyr.7.1.9; answering to ὁπηνίκα, S.Ph.465; to ὅτε or ὅταν, Id.OC393, OT76, etc.; to ὁπότε, ὅκως, X.Cyr.1.6.26, Hdt.1.17; to ἐπεί, ἐπειδάν, ἐπειδή, X.An.4.2.3, Cyr.1.2.13, D.21.96: also with the Art., τὸ τ. D.S.1.98, etc.
2. without a Relat. expressed, Hdt.1.18,63, S.Ant.779, etc.; ἤδη τ. by that time, Hdt.2.51, 6.53; τ. ἤδη only then, Ar.Ec.789; “τὸ τ. ἤδη” Pl.Alc.2.150e; at that time of day, Lys.1.22; at this hour, “τ. ἐχθὲς ἔπινον” Men.Epit.166: c. gen., τ. τοῦ θέρους at this lime of the summer, Ar.Pax1171 (lyr.); “τ. τοῦ ἔτους” Luc.Herod.7.
II. without reference to Time, under these circumstances, in this case, τί τ. δρῶμεν; Ar.Pax 1142 (troch.), cf. Pl.Lg.792b, X.Mem.3.11.14. (From τηνίκα, as ἐνταῦθα from ἔνθα.)
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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