νῦν : now,
freq. νῦν δή, νῦν αὖ, and esp. νῦν δέ, ‘as it is,’
‘as it was,’ contrasting the real state of the
case with a supposed one, Il. 1.417.
In the uses that are not strictly temporal νῦν differs from νύν only in
form (quantity), not in meaning, Il.
10.175.