A.why? wherefore? Il.1.365, 6.145,al., Hes.Th. 35, and Att. Comedy: folld. by a Particle, τίη δὲ . . ; Il.6.55, 15.244, Od.16.421, al.; τίη δὴ . . ; Il.21.436; doubled, τιὴ τί δή; standing alone, why so, tell me? Ar.V.1155, Pax1018, Th.84. (The oxyt. τιή is called Att. by Eust.118.36, cf. 45.4, but was unknown to A.D. and is prob. a fiction; τίη and τιὴ are dub. ll. in Ar.Ach.826; cf. “ἦ” 1.2, ὁτιή.)
τίη , better τί ἢ (A.D.Conj.255.8, 256.3), Att. (?) τιή (v. infr.), strengthd. form of τί;
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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