ἀεί: Difference between revisions

|Definition=Adv. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[ever]], [[always]], Hom., etc.; with other specifications of time, ἐμμενὲς αἰεί <span class="bibl">Od.21.69</span>; συνεχὲς αἰ. <span class="bibl">9.74</span>; <b class="b3">ἀ. καθ' ἡμέραν, καθ' ἡμέραν ἀ., ἀ. καὶ καθ' ἡμέραν, ἀ. κατ' ἐνιαυτόν, ἀ. διὰ βίου</b>, etc., <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phd.</span> 75d</span>, etc.; ἀ. πανταχοῦ <span class="bibl">D.21.197</span>, cf. Ar.<b class="b2">Eq.</b>.568; διὰ παντὸς ἀ. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Pax</span> 397</span>; ἐνδελεχῶς ἀ. <span class="bibl">Men.521</span>; <b class="b3">δεῦρ' ἀεί</b> [[until now]], <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Or.</span>1663</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span> 811c</span>; <b class="b3">αἰεί κοτε, ποτε</b> [[from of old]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.58</span>, <span class="bibl">Th.6.82</span>; αἰ. δήποτε <span class="bibl">1.13</span>; cf. [[εἰσαεί]]:—with the Art., <b class="b3">ὁ ἀ. χρόνος</b> [[eternity]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.54</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phd.</span> 103e</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">οἱ ἀ. ὄντες</b> the [[immortals]], <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>1.6.46</span>, etc.:—but <b class="b3">ὁ αἰ. βασιλεύων</b> the king [[for the time being]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.98</span>; οἱ ἀ. δικάζοντες <span class="bibl">D. 21.223</span>; <b class="b3">ὁ αἰ. ἐντὸς γιγνόμενος</b> [[every one]] as he got inside, <span class="bibl">Th.4.68</span>; τὸν ἀ. προστυχόντα <span class="bibl">D.21.131</span>; <b class="b3">τοῖσι τούτων αἰ. ἐκγόνοισι</b> to their descendants [[for ever]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.105</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">3.83</span>, etc.; in <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>937</span>, <b class="b3">θῶπτε τὸν κρατοῦντ' ἀ., ἀεί</b> is postponed metri gr.—Dialectic forms (cf. Hdn.Gr.<span class="bibl">1.497</span>, <b class="b2">Et.Gud.z</b>): </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">1</span> αἰεί, Ep., Ion., Poet., and Early Att. (cf. <span class="bibl">Marcellin.<span class="title">Vit. Thuc.</span>52</span>); found (beside [[ἀεί]]) in Att. Inscrr. to <span class="bibl">361</span> B.C. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> ἀεί [ᾰ three times in Hom., ᾱ Att.] normal in Att. Inscrr. from <span class="bibl">361</span> B.C. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> αἰέν, <span class="bibl">Il.1.290</span>, al. ([[ἆεν]] is v.l. in <span class="bibl">Il. 11.827</span>), <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span>6.3</span>, <span class="bibl">Sophr.90</span>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>428</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ag.</span>891</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>682</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> Dor. αἰές, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Lys.</span>1266</span>, <span class="bibl">Bion<span class="title">Fr.</span>1.1</span>; also ἀές, <span class="title">Tab.Heracl.</span>1.134. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">5</span> Aeol. αἶι( ν), ἄιν, Hdn.Gr.l.c.; cf.<span class="title">IG</span> 9(2).461 ([[ἄϊν]], Thess.), <span class="title">SIG</span>58 (Milet.), and v. [[ἀϊπάρθενος]], [[ἀείδασμος]]. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">6</span> αἰέ, Hdn.Gr.l.c. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">7</span> ἀέ, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>9.88</span>, <span class="bibl">Pisand.11</span> (ᾰἐ); cf. [[ἀέναος]]. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">8</span> Boeot. [[ἠί]], Hdn. Gr.l.c. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">9</span> Tarent. αἰή, ibid. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b3">τὸ ἀ</b>. [[eternity]], τὸ ἀ. τοῦτο οὐκ αἰώνιόν ἐστιν ἀλλὰ χρονικόν <span class="bibl">Procl.<span class="title">Inst.</span>198</span>. The statement of Harp. that [[ἀεί]] = ἕως in Att. is based on misinterpretation of such phrases as ἐς τόνδε αἰ. τὸν πόλεμον <span class="bibl">Th.1.18</span>. (αἰϝεί <span class="title">Epigr.Gr.</span>742, <span class="title">GDI</span>60.31 (Cypr.), <span class="title">IG</span>9(1).334.4 (Locr.), cf. Lat. [[aevum]].) </span>