A.“ἔτῃ” IG2.1059.18:—year, τῶν προτέρων ἐτέων in bygone years, Il.11.691; τόδ᾽ ἐεικοστὸν ἔ. ἐστὶν ἐξ οὗ . . 24.765, cf. Od.2.89, 19.222; “ὅτε . . ὄγδοόν μοι ἐπιπλόμενον ἔ. ἦλθε” 7.261; ἔ. ἐνιαυτῶν, v. ἐνιαυτός; ἑκάστου ἔτους Pl.Phd.58b; “ἀν᾽ ἕκαστον ἔ.” Thphr.HP4.4.4; “ἀνὰ πᾶν ἔ.” AP9.430 (Crin.); “ἀνὰ πάντα ἔτεα” Hdt. 8.65; δι᾽ ἔτους πέμπτου every fifth year, Ar.Pl.584; κατὰ ἔ. every year, Th.4.53, D.S.3.2, Ev.Luc.2.41, etc. (freq. καθ᾽ ἕ., as PPetr.3p.34 (iii B.C.) and later); ἔ. εἰς ἔ. year after year, S.Ant.340 (lyr.); δι᾽ ἔτους annually, Ph.1.19, 378; “εἰς ἔ.” Theoc.Ep.13.4; “εἰς ἔ. ἐξ ἔτεος” Id.18.15; “ἔ. ἐξ ἔτους” LXX Le.25.50; παρὰ ἔ. every other year, Paus.9.32.3 (but “πὰρ ϝέτος” yearly, Tab.Heracl.1.101); “πάλαι πολλὰ ἤδη ἔτη” Pl.Ap. 18b; “τρίτῳ ἔτει” Th.1.101; “τρίτῳ ἔτεϊ πρότερον” Hdt.6.40; τρίτῳ ἔτεϊ τούτων in the third year after this, ibid., etc.; freq. in acc., ἔ. τόδ᾽ ἤδη δέκατον . . βόσκων now for these ten years, S.Ph.312; “τύραννος ἐγεγόνει ἤδη χιλιοστὸν ἔτος” Pl.R.615c, cf. D.3.4, 33.23; of a person's age, “γεγονὼς ἔτη τρία ἀπολείποντα τῶν ἑκατόν” Isoc.12.270; “οἱ ὑπὲρ τὰ στρατεύσιμα ἔτη γεγονότες” X.Cyr.1.2.4, cf. 13, etc.; without “γεγονώς, τοὺς ὑπὲρ τετταράκοντα ἔτη” Id.An.5.3.1; οἱ μέχρι τετταράκοντα ἐτῶν ib.6.4.25, etc.: in gen., “ἐπειδὰν ἐτῶν ᾖ τις τριάκοντα” Pl.Lg.721b; μυρίων ἐτῶν within a period of 10,000 years, Id.Phdr.248e; ὥρα ἔτους, v. ὥρα 1.
2. regnal year, “τὸ πέμπτον ἔ. Δομιτιανοῦ” POxy.477.8 (ii A.D.). (ϝέτος SIG9.2 (Olympia, vi B.C.), Berl.Sitzb.1927.8 (Locr., v B.C.), Inscr.Cypr.135.1 H., Tab.Heracl.l.c.; cf. Lat. vetus.）
