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ἄφα^ρ [α^φ], poet. Adv.
A.straightway, forthwith, in Hom. mostly at the beginning of a clause, with δέ following, “ἄ. δ᾽ ἤμυσε καρήατι” Il.19.405, cf. Od.2.95: without δέ, thereupon, after that, Il.11.418.
2. suddenly, quickly, “ἄ. κεραοὶ τελέθουσι” Od.4.85: strengthd., “ἄ. αὐτίκα” Il. 23.593; “πέμπε δράκοντας ἄ.” Pi.N.1.40, cf. 10.63, Pae.6.81, Emp.35.6, 110.8.—Rare in Trag., A.Pers.469; “ἄ. βέβακε” S.Tr.133,529, cf. E. IT1274 (lyr. exc. in A. l. c.): also in later Ep. as A.R.2.539, etc.
3. intens., very, Il.17.417, Od.2.169.
II. in Thgn.716 as if Adj., swift, fleet (cf. ἀφάρτερος）, παῖδες Βορέω τῶν ἄφαρ εἰσὶ πόδες.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (12):
    • Aeschylus, Persians, 469
    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Taurus, 1274
    • Homer, Iliad, 11.418
    • Homer, Iliad, 17.417
    • Homer, Iliad, 19.405
    • Homer, Iliad, 23.593
    • Homer, Odyssey, 2.169
    • Homer, Odyssey, 2.95
    • Homer, Odyssey, 4.85
    • Sophocles, Trachiniae, 133
    • Sophocles, Trachiniae, 529
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 2.539
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