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|Full diacritics=αἴ
|Medium diacritics=αἴ
|Low diacritics=αι
|Capitals=ΑΙ
|Transliteration A=aí
|Transliteration B=ai
|Transliteration C=ai
|Beta Code=ai)/
|Definition=or αἶ (authorities vary, cf. Hdn.Gr.<span class="bibl">1.496</span>, Tz.adLyc.31), interj. of astonishment or grief:—<span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> αἲ τάλαν <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pl.</span>706</span>, cf. <span class="title">Min. Oxy.</span>413.73: c. acc., αἲ τὸν Ἄδωνιν <span class="bibl">Bion 1.32</span>; freq. doubled <b class="b3">αἰαῖ</b> (Hdn.Gr.<span class="bibl">2.933</span>), <span class="bibl">Thgn.1341</span>, <span class="bibl">B.5.153</span>, <span class="bibl">A. <span class="title">Th.</span>787</span>, Alciphr.<span class="title">Fr.</span>4: c.gen., αἰαῖ τόλμας <span class="bibl">E. <span class="title">Hipp.</span>814</span> (lyr.), cf. <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ch.</span>1007</span>, <span class="bibl">Alciphr.3.67</span>, etc.: c. acc., αἰαῖ Ἄδωνιν <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Lys.</span>393</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Bion 1.28</span>; αἰαῖ πέτρον ἐκεῖνον <span class="title">AP</span>7.554 (Phil.), cf. <span class="bibl">9.424</span> (Duris Elait.). [αῐαῑ generally, sometimes αῑαῑ, as A. <span class="title">Th.</span> l.c.]</span>
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|lstext='''αἴ''': [[ἐπιφώνημα]] θαυμασμοῦ ἢ ἀγανακτήσεως, = ἆ ! Ἡρωδιαν. παρ’ Ἀρκαδ. 183. 20, Ἰωανν. Ἀλεξ. τονικὰ παραγγέλμ. 32, 25, [[ὅστις]] ἀναφέρει ὡς [[παράδειγμα]] τὸ αἲ τάλαν, ἐκ τοῦ Πλούτ. τοῦ Ἀριστοφ. 706. ΙΙ. αἶ (περισπώμενον) [[ἐπιφώνημα]] θλίψεως, = ἄχ ! Λατ. vae μόνον ἐν χρήσει ἐν τῷ δισυλλάβῳ [[αἰαῖ]], (ὡς μανθάνομεν παρὰ τοῦ Ἡρωδιαν. Περὶ μον. λέξ. 27. 13.), οὐχὶ κατὰ διαίρεσιν αἶ αἶ ἢ αἴ αἴ (ὡς ἐν τοῖς χειρογρ.), ἀλλὰ καθ’ ἕνωσιν, ὡς ἀνωτέρω. Εἶναι [[συχν]]. παρὰ Τραγ. [[αἰαῖ]] τόλμας, Εὐρ. Ἱππ. 814· καὶ κατ’ ἐπανάληψιν, [[αἰαῖ]] [[αἰαῖ]] μελέων ἔργων, Αἰσχύλ. Χο. 1007, πρβλ. Πέρσ. 1039: [[συχνάκις]] δὲ τίθεται ἐν τῷ στίχῳ [[μετὰ]] χασμωδίας, [[οἷον]], [[αἰαῖ]] ἱκνοῦμαι, Σοφ. Ἠλ. 136, πρβλ. Τρ. 969, μεταγεν. [[μετὰ]] αἰτ. [[αἰαῖ]] τὰν Κυθέρειαν, Βίων 1. 28 κλπ.· [[αἰαῖ]] πέτρον ἐκεῖνον, Ἀνθ. Π. 7. 554, πρβλ. 9, 424: - ἐν Ἀριστοφ. Ἀχ. 1083 τὸ [[αἰαῖ]] τοῦ Λαμάχου ἐμπαικτικῶς ἐπαναλαμβάνεται ὑπὸ τοῦ Δικαιοπόλιδος.
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|btext=<i>adv.</i><br /><i>dans les loc.</i> αἲ [[γάρ]], αἲ γὰρ [[δή]] <i>avec l’opt. ou un inf. employé abs.</i> : « plaise <i>ou</i> plût aux dieux que… ! ».
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{{Autenrieth
|auten=if, if only, [[whether]]; [[conjunction]], used in conditional clauses, and in the [[expression]] of a [[wish]]; [[always]] [[with]] κέ, [[κέν]] ([[never]] ἄν), or [[γάρ]], and [[never]] separated [[from]] these particles by [[another]] [[particle]] (εἰ δέ κε, [[never]] αἰ δέ κε).—I. conditional, [[regularly]] foll. by subj., [[rarely]] by opt. (Il. 7.387, Od. 13.389). Here belongs the so-called ‘interrogative’ [[use]], as πειρήσομαι αἴ κε [[τύχωμι]], Il. 5.279.—II. optative, to [[express]] a [[wish]], ‘would [[that]],’ αἲ [[γάρ]], or αἲ γὰρ δή w. opt., [[generally]] referring to fut. [[time]], [[but]] [[sometimes]] of an [[unfulfilled]] [[wish]] in pres. [[time]] (Il. 7.132); foll. by inf., Od. 7.311, Od. 24.376.
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