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αὖτε , Adv., (αὖ, τε):—used by Hom.
A.like αὖ,
I. of Time, again, Il.1.202, 2.105,370, al.; freq. “δὴ αὖτε” 1.340, 2.225, and with crasis, “δαὖτε” Alcm.36, “δηὖτε” Archil.60, Sapph.40, Alc.19.1, Hippon. 78.
II. to mark Sequence or Transition, again, furthermore, “ἕκτον δ᾽ αὖτ᾽ Ὀδυσῆα” Il.2.407; Δαρδανίων αὖτ᾽ ἦρχεν . . Αἰνείας ib.819, cf. 826, etc.; esp. in speeches, τὸν δ᾽ αὖτε προσέειπε . . him in turn addressed . . , 3.58, al.; “ἀμφί μοι αὖτε ἄναχθ᾽ ἑκαταβόλον ἀειδέτω φρήν” Terp.2, cf. Ar.Nu.595; “ἥδ᾽ αὖθ᾽ ἕρπει” S.Tr.1009 (lyr.).
2. on the other hand, on the contrary, sts. opp. μέν (instead of δέ), Il.1.237, Od. 22.6; coupled with δέ, h.Cer.137, A.Pers.183, Th.5,Ag.553.—Freq. in A., once in S., never in E.; not in Prose; Com. only in Dact. and Anap. in Epic reminiscences, Cratin.169, Ar.Pax1270, Metag. 4.2 (prob.); “νῦν αὖτε λεῲ προσέχετε τὸν νοῦν” Ar.V.1015.
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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