ἐάν: Difference between revisions

|Definition=(so early Attic Inscrr., as <span class="title">IG</span>12.3.20, [[εἰάν]] sometimes after B.C. 400, ib.22.28.17, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PEleph.</span>1.8</span>,<span class="bibl">10</span> (iv B.C.)), also contr. ἤν and ἄν, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> v. [[ἤν]], [[ἄν]] (B) [ᾱ], which by crasis with [[καί]] become [[κἄν]]:—[[if haply]], [[if]], regularly folld. by subj.: for its use and for examples, v. [[εἰ]] B. 11, and [[ἄν]] (A) <span class="bibl">B.1.1</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> in Hellenistic and late Greek, = [[ἄν]] after relative Pronouns and Conjunctions, as <b class="b3">ὃς ἐάν</b> who[[soever]], <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Ge.</span>15.14</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PTeb.</span> 107.8</span> (ii B. C.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ev.Matt.</span>5.19</span>, al.; ὅσος ἐάν <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PPetr.</span>3p.120</span> (iii B.C.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ev.Matt.</span>18.18</span>; ὅστις ἐάν <span class="bibl">Ph.1.220</span>, <span class="bibl">M.Ant.9.23</span>; ὅπου ἐάν <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ev.Matt.</span> 8.19</span>, etc.; ὅθεν ἐάν <span class="title">Gp.</span>1.3.3: folld. by ind., <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">1 Ki.</span>2.14</span>. [The second syll. of [[ἐάν]] is long, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>1407</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">V.</span>228</span>, <span class="bibl">Sopat.6.9</span>.]</span>