τίη: Difference between revisions

|Definition=better τί ἢ (<span class="bibl">A.D.<span class="title">Conj.</span>255.8</span>, <span class="bibl">256.3</span>), Att. (?) τιή (v. infr.), strengthd. form of [[τί]]; <span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">why? wherefore?</b> <span class="bibl">Il.1.365</span>, <span class="bibl">6.145</span>,al., <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Th.</span> 35</span>, and Att. Comedy: folld. by a Particle, <b class="b3">τίη δὲ . .</b>; <span class="bibl">Il.6.55</span>, <span class="bibl">15.244</span>, <span class="bibl">Od.16.421</span>, al.; <b class="b3">τίη δὴ . .</b>; <span class="bibl">Il.21.436</span>; doubled, <b class="b3">τιὴ τί δή</b>; standing alone, <b class="b2">why so, tell me?</b> <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">V.</span>1155</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Pax</span>1018</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Th.</span>84</span>. (The oxyt. [[τιή]] is called Att. by <span class="bibl">Eust.118.36</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">45.4</span>, but was unknown to A.D. and is prob. a fiction; [[τίη]] and [[τιὴ]] are dub. ll. in <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ach.</span>826</span>; cf. ἦ <span class="bibl">1.2</span>, [[ὁτιή]].)</span>