A.on! up! away! used with the imper. sg. or pl., cf. E.Med.820, etc.; εἶα δή come then! A. Ag.1650, Ar.Th.659; εἶά νυν well now! Id.Pax467; “ἄγ᾽ εἶα” Id.Ra. 396; “ἀλλ᾽ εἶα” E.HF622, Ar.Pl.760; “ὦ εἶα” Id.Pax459; εἶα ὦ ib.468; “ἀλλ᾽ εἶα δὴ . . σκεψώμεθα” Pl.Sph.239b:—with interrog. οὐ, where the question is equivalent to a command, οὐκ εἶα . . δραμεῖσθε; E.IT1423, cf. Hel.1597. (“εἷα” S.Ichn.87, cf. Hdn.Gr.1.495.)
εἶα , an exclamation used to cheer or urge on,
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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