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2802. αὖ (postpositive), an adversative particle meaning on the other hand, on the contrary (properly again). In Hom. it serves as a correlative to μέν or ἦ τοι, and to introduce the apodosis of conditional or relative clauses.

αὖ is often used with personal pronouns, as ““ἀλλὰ σὺ αὖ . . . λέγε” but do you in turn tell us” X. S. 3. 5; and is often added to δέ, as ““οἱ Ἕλληνες ἐπῇσαν . . . οἱ δ᾽ αὖ βάρβαροι οὐκ ἐδέχοντο” the Greeks came on, but the barbarians on their part did not wait to receive them” X. A. 1.10.11. Connected in meaning are the derivatives αὖτε (poetic) and αὖθις.

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