δῆθεν: Difference between revisions

|Definition=( δῆθε <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">El.</span>268</span>, cj. in <span class="bibl">Eup.7.1</span> D.), Adv., a strengthd. form of <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> δή, ὡς Ζεὺς ἀνάσσοι δ. <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>204</span>; ὡς παῖδα δ. μὴ τέκοις <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">El.</span>268</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ion</span>831</span>; τί δὴ ἀνδρωθέντες δ. ποιήσουσι; <span class="bibl">Hdt.6.138</span>; ἄρτι δ. [[I suppose]], <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Plt.</span>297c</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> more freq. ironically, [[forsooth]], οἵ μιν ἠθέλησαν ἀπολέσαι δ… [[as he pretended]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.59</span>; δ. οὐδὲν ἱστορῶν <span class="bibl">S. <span class="title">Tr.</span>382</span>; οὐκ ἐπὶ κωλύμῃ ἀλλὰ γνώμης παραινέσει δ. <span class="bibl">Th.1.92</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">127</span>, <span class="bibl">3.111</span>: freq. after [[ὡς]], mostly with a word interposed, φέροντες ὡς ἄγρην δ. <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.73</span>; ὡς κατασκόπους δ. ἐόντας <span class="bibl">Id.3.136</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">6.39</span>, <span class="bibl">8.5</span>; also κέντρον δ. ὡς ἔχων χερί <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">HF</span>949</span>; εἴσιμεν… δ. ὡς θανούμενοι <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Or.</span>1119</span>; θεατὴν δ., ὡς οὐκ ὄντ' ἐμόν <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ion</span>656</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[from that time]], [[thenceforth]], <span class="bibl">Anacreont.1.16</span>, Hsch.</span>

|mdlsjtxt=<br />a strengthd. [[form]] of δή, [[really]], in [[very]] [[truth]], τί δὴ ἀνδρωθέντες [[δῆθεν]] ποιήσουσι; [[what]] then [[will]] they do [[when]] they are [[really]] [[grown]] up? Hdt.:— also epexegetic, Lat. [[videlicet]], that is to say, Aesch., Eur.:—[[ironically]], Lat. [[scilicet]], to [[imply]] that a [[statement]] is not true, οἵ μιν ἠθέλησαν ἀπολέσαι [[δῆθεν]] as he [[pretended]], Hdt.; φέροντες ὡς ἄγρην [[δῆθεν]] Hdt.