[*] 220. Imperfect of sudden appreciation of real state of affairs.—imperfect for present. Of sudden appreciation of a real state of things, regularly with “ἆρα” (“ἄρα”). “οὐ γὰρ τοῦτ᾽ ἦν εὐδαιμονία, ὡς ἔοικε, κακοῦ ἀπαλλαγή”, PLATO, Gorg. 478C. “ΔΙΚ. τουτὶ τί ἦν τὸ πρᾶγμα; ΜΕΓ. χοῖρος ναὶ Δία”, AR. Ach. 767; What's all this? A pig, by Jove. PLATO, Conv. 213B: “ὦ Ἡράκλεις, τουτὶ τί ἦν; Σωκράτης οὗτος”; Gorg. 478 C (see above). Phaedr. 227 B: “ἀτὰρ Λυσίας ἦν, ὡς ἔοικεν, ἐν ἄστει”. Ibid. 230 A: “ἆρ᾽ οὐ τόδε ἦν τὸ δένδρον, ἐφ̓ ὅπερ ἦγες ἡμᾶς”; Isn't this the tree, etc.? (213). XEN. Cyr. 1.3.10: “τοῦτ᾽ ἄῤ ἦν ἡ ἰσηγορἰα”. Ibid. 1.4.27: “ταῦτ᾽ ἄρα . . . καὶ ἐνεώρας μοι”. Oec. 1.20: “λῦπαι ἄρα ἦσαν ἡδοναῖς περιπεπεμμέναι”, So they turn out to be (are after all) pains sugar-coated with pleasure. HDT.3.65: “ἐν τῇ γὰρ ἀνθρωπηίῃ φύσι οὐκ ἐνῆν ἄρα τὸ μέλλον γίνεσθαι ἀποτράπειν”. 4.64: “δέρμα δὲ ἀνθρώπου καὶ παχὺ καὶ λαμπρὸν ἦν ἄρα”. AR. Ach. 767 (see above). Eq. 1170: “ὡς μέγαν ἄρ᾽ εἶχες, ὦ πότνια, τὸν δάκτυλον”. Vesp. 183-4: “τουτὶ τί ἦν”; | “τίς εἶ ποτ᾽, ὦνθρωπ̓, ἐτεόν”; Ibid. 451: “σὺ δ᾽ ἀχάριστος ἦσθ̓ ἄρα”. EUR. H. F. 339-41: “ὦ Ζεῦ, μάτην ἄρ᾽ ὁμόγαμόν ς᾿ ἐκτησάμην”, | “μάτην δὲ παιδὸς γονἔ ἐμοῦ σ᾽ ἐκλῄζομεν:” | “σὺ δ᾽ ἦσθ̓ ἄῤ ἧσσον ἢ ᾿δόκεις εἶναι φίλος”. I. A. 404: “αἰαῖ, φίλους ἄρ᾽ οὐχὶ κεκτήμην τάλας”. THEOGN. 700: “τῶν δ᾽ ἄλλων οὐδὲν ἄῤ ἦν ὄφελος”. 788: “οὕτως οὐδὲν ἄρ᾽ ἦν φίλτερον ἄλλο πάτρης”. HOM. Od. 4.333-4: “ὢ πόποι, ἦ μάλα δὴ κρατερόφρονος ἀνδρὸς ἐν εὐνῇ” | “ἤθελον εὐνηθῆναι ἀνάλκιδες αὐτοὶ ἐόντες”. 9.230: “οὐδ᾽ ἄῤ ἔμελλ̓ ἑτάροισι φανεὶς ἐρατεινὸς ἔσεσθαι”. 475-6 (215). 11.553: “οὐκ ἄρ᾽ ἔμελλες”. 13.209-10: “ὢ πόποι, οὐκ ἄρα πάντα νοήμονες οὐδὲ δίκαιοι” | “ἦσαν Φαιήκων ἡγήτορες”. Il. 4.155: “θάνατόν νύ τοι ὅρκἰ ἔταμνον”. 5.205: “τὰ δέ μ᾽ οὐκ ἄῤ ἔμελλον ὀνήσειν”. 16.33: “οὐκ ἄρα σοί γε πατὴρ ἦν ἱππότα Πηλεύς”.
Syntax of Classical Greek from Homer to Demosthenes. Basil L. Gildersleeve. New York. American Book Company. 1900.
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