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αὐτίκα^ [ι^], Adv.
A.forthwith, at once, in a moment, which notion is strengthd. by Hom. in “αὐ. νῦν, μάλ᾽ αὐ.” on the spot, Od.10.111, al.: c. part., αὐτίκ᾽ ἰόντι immediately on his going, 2.367; beginning a sentence, Sapph.Supp.20a.13: in Prose, αὐ. γενόμενος as soon as born, Hdt.2.146; “αὐ. μάλα” Id.7.103, IG12.39.47, Pl.Prt.318b; αὐ. δὴ μάλα presently (at the end of a sentence), D.21.19,23; “αὐ. νυκτός” Theoc.2.119.
2. now, for the moment, “αὐ. καὶ μετέπειτα” Od.14.403; “ὁ μὲν αὐτίχ᾽ ὁ δ᾽ ἥξει” A.Ch.1020; ἡδὺ μὲν γὰρ αὐ . . . ἐν δὲ χρόνῳ . . E.Andr.781 (lyr.); Th. opposes τὸ αὐ. and “ὁ μέλλων πόλεμος” 1.36, cf. 2.41: with a Subst., “τὴν μὲν αὐτίχ᾽ ἡμέραν” S.OC433; ὁ αὐ. φόβος momentary fear, Th.3.112, cf. 1.41,124.
3. in a slightly future sense, immediately, presently, “αὐτίκ᾽ ἀκούσεσθε” D.19.17, cf. S.Ph.14, 1001, Ar.Pl.347, etc.; opp. νῦν, Pl.Grg.459c, R.420c; “ἐμπέπτωκεν εἰς λόγους οὓς αὐ. μᾶλλον . . ἁρμόσει λέγειν” D.18.42.
II. for example, to begin with, Hp.Epid.1.25, Acut.16; “αὐ. γὰρ ἄρχει διὰ τίν᾽ ὁ Ζεύς;” Ar.Pl.130, cf. Au.166,574, Pl.Prt.395e, R.340d, Dialex.2.2, al.; “αὐ. δὴ μάλα” for example now, D.25.29; at any rate, Plu.2.1137d.
III. = αὖθις, Arat.880, 1076 (but = εὐθέως, Sch.).
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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