Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon, ἤ1

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B.COMPARATIVE, than, as, Lat. quam, Hom., etc.: after Adjs. which imply comparison, as ἄλλος, ἕτερος, ἀλλοῖος, διπλάσιος, ἐναντίος, ἴδιος, πολλαπλάσιος, and after the Advs. πρίν, πρόσθεν; so, after Verbs implying comparison, βούλεσθαι ἤ . . to wish rather than . .; φθάνειν ἤ . . to come sooner than . . , etc.

2.ἤ sometimes joins two Comparatives, when they both refer to the same subject, ἐλαφρότεροι ἢ ἀφνειότεροι to be swifter rather than richer, Od.; ταχύτερα ἢ σοφώτερα Hdt.

3.rarely after a Sup., πλεῖστα θωυμάσια ἔχει Αἴγυπτος ἢ ἄλλη πᾶσα χώρη id=Hdt.

4.ἤ is often omitted with numerals after πλέων, ἐλάττων, μείων, as, ἔτη πλέω ἑβδομήκοντα Plat. [When ἢ οὐ, ἢ οὐκ come together in a verse, the two coalesce into one syll.]

Liddell and Scott. An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1889.

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