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|auten=[[now]], [[just]], [[indeed]], [[really]], etc.; a [[particle]] marking [[degree]] of [[time]], [[quality]], or [[emphasis]], [[mostly]] untranslatable by a [[single]] [[word]]; postpositive [[except]] in the [[initial]] phrases δὴ [[τότε]], δὴ [[γάρ]], δὴ [[πάμπαν]], Il. 19.342; καὶ δή μοι [[γέρας]] αὐτὸς ἀφαιρήσεσθαι ἀπειλεῖς, and ‘[[here]] [[now]],’ Il. 1.161 ; ὀκτὼ δὴ [[προέηκα]] ὀιστούς, ‘[[full]] [[eight]] [[already]],’ Il. 8.297 (so [[often]] w. numerals); appended to adverbs of [[time]], [[ὅτε]] δή, ὀψὲ δή, to adjectives (esp. superlatives, κάρτιστοι δή, ‘the [[very]] mightiest’), to [[relative]] and interrogative pronouns, and to [[other]] particles, ὡς δή, [[ironical]]; εἰ δή, if ‘[[really]]’; ἀλλὰ δή, (γὰρ) δή (scilicet enim); esp. in wishes or commands, μὴ δή, ‘only’; [[ἴθι]] δή, [[ἄγε]] δή, etc. δή [[often]] coalesces [[with]] a [[following]] [[long]] vowel or diphthong (‘synizesis’), δὴ [[αὖτε]], δὴ [[οὕτως]] ([[not]] to be written δ).