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δῆθεν ( δῆθε E.El.268, cj. in Eup.7.1 D.), Adv., a strengthd. form of
A.“δή, ὡς Ζεὺς ἀνάσσοι δ.” A.Pr.204; “ὡς παῖδα δ. μὴ τέκοις” E.El.268, cf. Ion831; “τί δὴ ἀνδρωθέντες δ. ποιήσουσι;” Hdt.6.138; “ἄρτι δ.” I suppose, Pl.Plt.297c.
2. more freq. ironically, forsooth, “οἵ μιν ἠθέλησαν ἀπολέσαι δ . . .” as he pretended, Hdt.1.59; “δ. οὐδὲν ἱστορῶν” S. Tr.382; “οὐκ ἐπὶ κωλύμῃ ἀλλὰ γνώμης παραινέσει δ.” Th.1.92, cf. 127, 3.111: freq. after ὡς, mostly with a word interposed, “φέροντες ὡς ἄγρην δ.” Hdt.1.73; “ὡς κατασκόπους δ. ἐόντας” Id.3.136, cf. 6.39, 8.5; also “κέντρον δ. ὡς ἔχων χερί” E.HF949; “εἴσιμεν . . δ. ὡς θανούμενοι” Id.Or.1119; “θεατὴν δ., ὡς οὐκ ὄντ᾽ ἐμόν” Id.Ion656.
II. from that time, thenceforth, Anacreont.1.16, Hsch.
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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