ἀεί

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Adv.

   A ever, always, Hom., etc.; with other specifications of time, ἐμμενὲς αἰεί Od.21.69; συνεχὲς αἰ. 9.74; ἀ. καθ' ἡμέραν, καθ' ἡμέραν ἀ., ἀ. καὶ καθ' ἡμέραν, ἀ. κατ' ἐνιαυτόν, ἀ. διὰ βίου, etc., Pl.Phd. 75d, etc.; ἀ. πανταχοῦ D.21.197, cf. Ar.Eq..568; διὰ παντὸς ἀ. Pax 397; ἐνδελεχῶς ἀ. Men.521; δεῦρ' ἀεί until now, E.Or.1663, Pl.Lg. 811c; αἰεί κοτε, ποτε from of old, Hdt.1.58, Th.6.82; αἰ. δήποτε 1.13; cf. εἰσαεί:—with the Art., ὁ ἀ. χρόνος eternity, Hdt.1.54, Pl.Phd. 103e, etc.; οἱ ἀ. ὄντες the immortals, X.Cyr.1.6.46, etc.:—but ὁ αἰ. βασιλεύων the king for the time being, Hdt.2.98; οἱ ἀ. δικάζοντες D. 21.223; ὁ αἰ. ἐντὸς γιγνόμενος every one as he got inside, Th.4.68; τὸν ἀ. προστυχόντα D.21.131; τοῖσι τούτων αἰ. ἐκγόνοισι to their descendants for ever, Hdt.1.105, cf. 3.83, etc.; in A.Pr.937, θῶπτε τὸν κρατοῦντ' ἀ., ἀεί is postponed metri gr.—Dialectic forms (cf. Hdn.Gr.1.497, Et.Gud.z):    1 αἰεί, Ep., Ion., Poet., and Early Att. (cf. Marcellin.Vit. Thuc.52); found (beside ἀεί) in Att. Inscrr. to 361 B.C.    2 ἀεί [ᾰ three times in Hom., ᾱ Att.] normal in Att. Inscrr. from 361 B.C.    3 αἰέν, Il.1.290, al. (ἆεν is v.l. in Il. 11.827), Pi.N.6.3, Sophr.90, A.Pr.428, Ag.891, S.Aj.682.    4 Dor. αἰές, Ar.Lys.1266, BionFr.1.1; also ἀές, Tab.Heracl.1.134.    5 Aeol. αἶι( ν), ἄιν, Hdn.Gr.l.c.; cf.IG 9(2).461 (ἄϊν, Thess.), SIG58 (Milet.), and v. ἀϊπάρθενος, ἀείδασμος.    6 αἰέ, Hdn.Gr.l.c.    7 ἀέ, Pi.P.9.88, Pisand.11 (ᾰἐ); cf. ἀέ-ναος.    8 Boeot. ἠί, Hdn. Gr.l.c.    9 Tarent. αἰή, ibid.    II τὸ ἀ. eternity, τὸ ἀ. τοῦτο οὐκ αἰώνιόν ἐστιν ἀλλὰ χρονικόν Procl.Inst.198. The statement of Harp. that ἀεί = ἕως in Att. is based on misinterpretation of such phrases as ἐς τόνδε αἰ. τὸν πόλεμον Th.1.18. (αἰϝεί Epigr.Gr.742, GDI60.31 (Cypr.), IG9(1).334.4 (Locr.), cf. Lat. aevum.)