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ἐτεός , ά, όν (not found in masc.),
A.true, genuine, “πόλλ᾽ ἐτεά” Il.20.255; “ἢ ἐτεὸν Κάλχας μαντεύεται” 2.300; εἰ ἐτεόν περ whether it be true indeed, 14.125; “εἰ δή ῥ᾽ ἐ. γε καὶ ἀτρεκέως ἀγορεύεις” 15.53.
II. ἐτεόν, as Adv., in truth, verily, “εἰπέ μοι εἰ ἐ. γε φίλην ἐς πατρίδ᾽ ἱκάνω” Od.13.328, cf.Il.8.423; εἰ ἐ. . . μιμνῄσκομαι rightly, Theoc.25.173.
2. in Ar. (not in other Com.) interrog., really, indeed, οὐκ ἀκούσεσθ᾽ ἐ. . . ; Ach.322, cf. 609; ἐ. ἡγεῖ γὰρ θεούς; Eq.32, cf. 733; in asking for information, τί οὖν τοῦτ᾽ ἐστὶν ἐ.; Nu.93, cf. V.8; τί δὲ τοῦτ᾽ ἐγέλασας ἐ.; Nu.820; cf. ἐτός (B).
3. fem., ἐτεή, ἡ, reality, “[ἄνθρωπος] ἐτεῆς ἀπήλλακται” Democr.6; dat. ἐτεῇ, as Adv., in reality, “νόμῳ γλυκύ, νόμῳ πικρόν, ἐτεῇ δ᾽ ἄτομα καὶ κενόν” Id.125; “ἐ. οὐδὲν ἴσμεν” Id.7.
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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