τάχα: Difference between revisions

|Definition=Adv., ([[ταχύς]]) <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[quickly]], [[presently]], [[forthwith]], freq.in Hom., who, like Pi. (<span class="bibl"><span class="title">O.</span>2.29</span>, <span class="bibl">4.83</span>, al.) and B. (<span class="bibl">5.89</span>), uses it only of time, <span class="bibl">Il.1.205</span>, <span class="bibl">2.193</span>,al.; [[ἦ τάχα]] = [[right away]], [[soon]] i'faith, <span class="bibl">Od.18.73</span>,<span class="bibl">338</span>; of past time, τ. δ' Ἕκτορος ἄγχι γένοντο <span class="bibl">Il.8.117</span>: also in Trag.and (more rarely) Att.Prose and Com., with fut., τάχ' εἴσομαι <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Th.</span>261</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ag.</span>489</span>,<span class="bibl">1649</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ch.</span>305</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>84</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ra.</span>527</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Sph.</span>247d</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">ἔοικα θεσπιῳδήσειν τάχα</b> <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>1161</span>; <b class="b3">πέμψον πρὸς ἐμὲ τάχα</b> <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Sammelb.</span>7356.25</span> (ii A.D.); in this sense not found in [[LXX]] or in Papyri (exc. l.c.); [[τάχα ἐπειδάν]] = [[ἐπειδὰν τάχιστα]], [[as soon as]], <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phdr.</span>242a</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[perhaps]], to express any [[contingency]] from a [[probability]] to [[bare]] [[possibility]], δὶς μὲν γὰρ καὶ τρὶς τ. τεύξεαι <span class="bibl">Hes. <span class="title">Op.</span>401</span>; τ. οὐδὲ τεθέασθε τυραννουμένην πόλιν <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>711a</span>, cf. <span class="title">Hp. Ma.</span>303b, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">An.</span>5.2.17</span>, <span class="bibl">Theoc.27.61</span>, <span class="bibl">Bion <span class="title">Fr.</span>4.8</span>, Gal.16.685,690: more freq. [[τάχ' ἄν]], [[probably]], [[perhaps]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.70</span>, al., freq. in Trag. and Att.; mostly with opt., as Hdt. l.c., <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>314</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Eu.</span>512</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl">S. <span class="title">OT</span>139</span>, <span class="bibl">Th.1.81</span>, etc.; rarely with aor. ind., <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phdr.</span>256c</span>, Gal.16.596; with impf. ind., <span class="bibl">D.36.55</span>; with part., <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>523</span>, <span class="bibl">Th.6.2</span>; with inf., <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Icar.</span>10</span>; [[τάχ' ἄν]] alone, in answers, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Sph.</span>255c</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">R.</span>369a</span>, etc.: strengthened, τάχα . . ἴσως <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Th.</span>718</span>; <b class="b3">ἴσως τάχα</b> <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>7.1.24</span>; τ. τοίνυν ἴσως <span class="bibl">D.21.191</span>; [[τάχ' ἂν ἴσως]] <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Plt.</span>264c</span>; τάχ' ἴσως ἄν <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Sph.</span> 247d</span>; [[ἴσως τάχ' ἄν]] <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>691</span>, <span class="bibl">Th.6.34</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ti.</span>38e</span>; <b class="b3">ἀμφισβητοῦντες προστιθέασιν ἀεὶ τὸ ἴσως καὶ τάχα</b> <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1389b19</span>; in this sense only twice in [[LXX]] (<span class="bibl"><span class="title">Wi.</span>13.6</span>, <span class="bibl">14.19</span>). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> Sup. [[τάχιστα]], v. [[ταχύς]] c. ''ΙΙ''. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">IV</span> Ar. formed an acc. pl. [[τάχας]], [[perhaps]]es, [[maybe]]s [[Fr]].869.</span>