A.anything else, in interrog. sentences, mostly foll. by ἤ, ἤ σοι ἄλλο τι φαίνεται . . ἢ λόγος; Pl.Phdr.258a, cf. Phd.64c:—hence freq. (esp. in Pl.) elliptical, implying an affirm. answer, ἄλλο τι ἢ πεινήσουσι; (i.e. ἄλλο τι πείσονται ἢ πεινήσουσι;) will they not be starved? Hdt.2.14, cf.1.109; ἄλλο τι ἢ ἠρέμα ἐπανασκεψόμεθα; shall we not calmly reconsider? (i.e. let us do so) Pl.Tht.154e, cf. Phd. 70c, Men.82d, Grg.481c, etc.; ἄλλο τι ἢ καταγελῴης ἄν; Id.Alc.1.116d:— with other words interposed, “σκόπει εἰ ἄλλο τι λέγεις ἢ τόδε” Id.Smp.200d, cf. Phd.106a, Sph.228a, etc.:—ἄλλοτιπλήν . . ; Id.Sph. 228a:—but often ἄλλο τι with or without οὖν stands alone, ἄλλο τι οὖν . . ἔλεγες; did not you say? Id.Grg.495c, cf. 470b, Phd.79b, Tht. 165e, R.337c, etc.
ἄλλο τι,
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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