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ἆ , exclamation expressing pity, envy, contempt, etc., in Hom. always ἆ δειλέ, ἆ δειλώ, ἆ δειλοί, Il.11.441, 17.443, Od.20.351, cf. Thgn.351, Theoc.Ep.6; also in Lyr., Archil.135, and Trag., A.Ag. 1087, etc.; in reproofs or warnings, ἆ, μηδαμῶς . . S.Ph.1300, cf. OT1147, E.Hel.445, etc.:—freq. with adj.,
A.“ἆ μάκαρ” Thgn.1013, Choeril.1; “ἆ τάλας” Semon.7.76, cf. B.15.30; “ἆ τρισευδαίμων” Id.3.10; rarely alone, Ar.Ra.759; sts. doubled, “ἆ ἆ” A.Pr.114,566, Ar. V.1379. —Rare in Prose, Pl.Hp.Ma.295a (Euclusap.Sch. ad loc. is said to have used it = νῦν).
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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