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ἤδη , Adv.:
1. already, by this time, νὺξ ἤ. τελέθει 'tis already night, Il.7.282; ἤ. Τρώεσσιν ὀλέθρου πείρατ᾽ ἐφῆπται ib.402: with numerals, “ἤ. γὰρ τρίτον ἔτος” Od.2.89; “τρίτην ἤ. ἡμέραν” Pl.Prt. 309d; “ἔτος τόδ᾽ ἤ. δέκατον” S.Ph.312; ἦν δ᾽ ἦμαρ ἤ. δεύτερον ib.354; “τελοῦντες ἕκτον ἕβδομόν τ᾽ ἤ. δρόμον” Id.El.726; “ἤ. γὰρ πολὺς ἐκτέταται χρόνος” Id.Aj.1402.
2. forthwith, immediately, “φρονέω δὲ διακρινθήμεναι ἤ. Ἁργείους καὶ Τρῶας” Il.3.98; “λέξον νῦν με τάχιστα, ὄφρα καὶ ἤδη . . ταρπώμεθα κοιμηθέντες” Il.24.635, cf. Od.4.294; “ἤ. νῦν . . μεγάλ᾽ εὔχεο” Il.16.844; στείχοις ἂν ἤ. S.Tr.624; ἤδη . . στέλλεσθε; Id.Ph.466; μετὰ τοῦτ᾽ ἤ. Ar.Th.655; ἤ. ποτέ now at length, Mitteis Chr.87.8 (ii A.D.); on the verso of a letter, urgent, immediate, PCair. Zen.154 (iii B.C.); “ἤ. ἤ. ταχὺ ταχύ” PMag.Osl.1.319.
3. opp. to the future or past, actually, now, οὐκ ὄναρ, ἀλλ᾽ ὕπαρ ἤ. Od.20.90; “τοῖς μὲν γὰρ ἤ., τοῖς δ᾽ ἐν ὑστέρῳ χρόνῳ” S.OC614; οἱ μὲν τάχ᾽, οἱ δ᾽ ἐσαῦθις, οἱ δ᾽ ἤ. E.Supp.551; οὐ τάχ᾽, ἀλλ᾽ ἤ. Ar.Ra.527; ἡ ἤ. χάρις present favour, D.23.134; “τὸ ἤ. κολάζειν” X.An.7.7.24.
4. of logical proximity, “ἤ. γὰρ ἂν προστίθεσθαι” Pl.Tht.201e; τὰ ἐκ τούτων ἤ. συγκείμενα ib.202b; “πᾶς ἤ. ἂν εὕροι” Id.R.398c; “ἃν σὺ ὁμολογήσῃς, ταῦτ᾽ ἤ. ἐστὶν αὐτὰ τἀληθῆ” Id.Grg.486e; τοῦτο τοὔπος δεινὸν ἤ. Ar.Ach.315; τὰ πάντα τὰ πράγματα διαφθείραντα ταῦτ᾽ ἐστὶν ἤ. D.19.19.
b. καὶ ἤ. and further, as well, ἐμέ τε καὶ σὲ καὶ τα<*>῀λλ᾽ ἤ. Pl.Tht.159b, cf. S.E.P.1.53,219, etc.
c. for instance, Aen. Tact.4.1, 10.25.
d. only then, then and not before, “τότ᾽ ἤδη” A.Pr.911, Isoc. 12.25, Ep.6.9; ἐνταῦθ᾽ ἤ. Aeschin.3.140; “κακοπαθοῦντες ἤ. τῶν λόγων ἅπτονται” Th.1.78.
5. with Sup., ὦ πάντων ἀνδρῶν ἤ. μάλιστα . . κτησάμενε up to this time, Hdt.8.106; “μέγιστος ἤ. διάπλους” Th.6.31: with Comp., “ἤδη . . λόγου μέζων” Hdt.2.148.
II. joined with other words of time, ἤ. νῦν now already, Il.1.456, A.Ag.1578; νῦν ἤ. Od.23.54, S.Ant.801 (anap.); “ἤ. ποτέ” Il.1.260, S.Aj.1142, Ar.Nu.346; ποτ᾽ ἤ. A.Eu.50; “ἤ. πώποτε” Eup.214, Pl.R.493d; πάλαι ἤ. S.OC510 (lyr.); ἤ. τότε even then, Pl.R.417b; ἐπεὶ ἤ. Od.4.260; εἰ ἤ. Il.22.52; τὸ τηνίκ᾽ ἤ. S.OC440; τὸ λοιπὸν ἤ. Id.Ph.454; “ἄλλοτε ἤ. πολλάκις” Pl.R.507a; ἤ. γε even now, D.19.52.
III. of place, ἀπὸ ταύτης ἤ. Αἴγυπτος after this Egypt begins, Hdt.3.5, cf. 2.15,4.99, E.Hipp.1200; “Φωκεῦσιν ἤ. ὅμορος ἡ Βοιωτία ἐστίν” Th.3.95. (In general, cf. Arist.Ph.222b7.)
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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