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ἔτι [ι^], Adv.:
I. of Time,
1. of the Present, yet, still, “ἔ. μοι μένος ἔμπεδον” Il.5.254; “ἔ. τυτθὸν ἐόντα” 6.222; “εἰ Ζεὺς ἔ. Ζεύς” S.OC623 ; ἔτ᾽ ἐκ βρέφεος ever since babyhood, AP9.567 (Antip.); “ἔ. καὶ νῦν” Il. 1.455; ἔ. καὶ ἐκ παρόντων v.l. in Th.7.77; “ἔτ᾽ ἂν ἐκ τῶνδε θεὸς χρῄζων θείη” A.Ch.340; “ἔ. καὶ νυνί” Pl.Smp.215d; “νῦν ἔ. ζεῖ” A.Th.708 (lyr.), cf. Ag.818.
2. of the Past, mostly with impf., “ἀήθεσσον γὰρ ἔτ᾽ αὐτῶν” Il.10.493, cf. Hdt.9.102, Th.5.111, etc.: with aor., Pl.Prt.310c, etc.; ἔ. πρότερον, πρόσθεν, Th.8.45, Pl.Sph.242d: with the sense, already, “γεγονέναι ἔ. οὐχ ἧττον ἢ εἶναι” Id.Men.93a.
3. of the Future, yet, longer, “ἄλγε᾽ ἔδωκεν . . ἠδ᾽ ἔ. δώσει” Il.1.96, cf. 5.465: c. opt., “ἔ . . . φιλέοι” Od.15.305: c. imper., “μή τις ἔ . . . ἔστω” 2.230; hereafter, A.Pr.907, S.El.66, Ar. V.758 (anap.), etc.
4. with a neg., no longer, “οὐδὲ . . ἔ. παρέμειναν” D.H.5.46; v. οὐκέτι, μηκέτι.
II. of Degree, still, besides, ἐς δεκάτην γενεὴν ἕτερόν γ᾽ ἔ. βόσκοι another (and another and so on), Od.14.325; “ἔτ᾽ ἄλλο” Hes. Op. 157, cf. 11.6.411, Od.11.623, S.Ant.218, etc.; τίν᾽ οὖν ἔτ᾽ ἄλλον . . ; A.Ch.114; πρὸς τοῖσδ᾽ ἔ., πρὸς τούτοις ἔ. (cf. προσέτι), S.Ph.1339, Ar.Nu.720 (anap.); ἔ. τε and besides, nay more, Pl.Phdr.279a; ἔ. τοσόνδε this further point, Id.Tht. 184b; “ἔ. δὲ καί” Th.1.80, etc.; πρῶτον μὲν . . , ἔπειτα δὲ . . , ἔ. δὲ . . X.An.6.6.13; ἔ. καί alone, “τά τε εἴδωλα, ἔ. καὶ τὰ γεγραμμένα” Pl. Sph.239d; “ἔτι καὶ ἔ. ἀεί” Theol.Ar.30.
2. freq. to strengthen a Comp., ἔ. μᾶλλον yet more, Il.14.97, 362; “μᾶλλον ἔ.” Od.18.22; ἔ. καὶ μ. Pi.P.10.57; “καὶ ἔ. καὶ μᾶλλον” Ael.NA16.24; “ἔ. πλέον” Hdt.7.6 ; πλέον ἔ. Th.1.80; “παῖς τε κἄτι τοῦδ᾽ ἀνούστερος” A.Pr.987; “πότμῳ τῷ νῦν . . κἄτι τοῦδ᾽ ἐχθίονι” S.OT272, cf. El.559, 1189.
3. with the Posit., ἔ. ἄνω yet higher up, X. An.7.5.9; “ἔ. μάλα” Ar.Pax53, 462, Ra. 864. (Skt. áti 'beyond', Lat. et, Goth. ip 'but', 'however'.)
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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