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|txtha=adverb, according to its [[derivation]] (from ἈΡΩ to [[draw]] [[close]] [[together]], to [[join]], Latin arto; (cf. [[Curtius]], § 488)) denoting [[time]] [[closely]] [[connected]];<br /><b class="num">1.</b> in Attic "[[just]] [[now]], [[this]] [[moment]] (German gerade, eben), marking [[something]] begun or [[finished]] [[even]] [[now]], [[just]] [[before]] the [[time]] in [[which]] we are [[speaking]]" (Lobeck ad Phryn., p. 20): [[now]], at [[this]] [[time]]; opposed to [[past]] [[time]]: at [[this]] [[very]] [[time]], [[this]] [[moment]]: [[ἄχρι]] τῆς [[ἄρτι]] ὥρας, [[ἕως]] [[ἄρτι]], [[hitherto]]; [[until]] [[now]], up to [[this]] [[time]]: ἀπ' [[ἄρτι]], [[see]] [[ἀπαρτί]] [[above]]. Cf. Lobeck ad Phryn., p. 18ff; (Rutherford, New Phryn., p. 70f). [ SYNONYMS: [[ἄρτι]], [[ἤδη]], [[νῦν]]: Roughly [[speaking]], it [[may]] be said [[that]] [[ἄρτι]] [[just]] [[now]], [[even]] [[now]], [[properly]] marks [[time]] [[closely]] [[connected]] [[with]] the [[present]]; [[later]], [[strictly]] [[present]] [[time]] ([[see]] [[above]], and [[compare]] in English [[just]] [[now]] i. e. a [[moment]] [[ago]], and [[just]] [[now]] ([[emphatic]]) i. e. at [[this]] [[precise]] [[time]]). [[νῦν]] [[now]], marks a [[definite]] [[point]] (or [[period]]) of [[time]], the ([[object]]) [[immediate]] [[present]]. [[ἤδη]] [[now]] ([[already]]) [[with]] a suggested [[reference]] to [[some]] [[other]] [[time]] or to [[some]] [[expectation]], the subjective [[present]] (i. e. so regarded by the [[writer]]). [[ἤδη]] and [[ἄρτι]] are associated in [[νῦν]], and [[ἤδη]] in Bäumlein, Partikeln, p. 138ff; Ellicott on 2 Timothy 4:6.]  

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