ὁτιή: Difference between revisions

|Definition=(better ὅτι ἢ, v. infr.), Conj., colloquial form of [[ὅτι]] B, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[because]], <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Cyc.</span>643</span>, <span class="bibl">Eup.305</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Eq.</span>29</span>, <span class="bibl">34</span>, <span class="bibl">181</span>, <span class="bibl">236</span>, etc.: followed by τί, ὁτιὴ τί <b class="b2">; 'cause why?</b> <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Nu.</span>784</span>; <b class="b3">ὁτιὴ τί δή</b>; ib.<span class="bibl">755</span>. (The accentuation <b class="b3">ὅτι ἢ</b> is implied by A.D., who says πρὸς πάντων συμφώνως ἀνεγνώσθη ἐν ὀξείᾳ τάσει τὸ ο <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Conj.</span>256.2</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Synt.</span>307.22</span>; only [[ὁτιὴ]] is found in codd., and Eust. has οἱ Ἀττικοὶ ὀξυτόνως λέγουσι τιὴ καὶ ὁτιή <span class="bibl">118.36</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">45.4</span>; cf. [[ἦ]] <span class="bibl">1.2</span>.) </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> more rarely, = [[ὅτι]], [[that]], <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Eq.</span>360</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Nu.</span> 331</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">V.</span>1395</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Av.</span>1010</span>.</span>