ἠμί: Difference between revisions

|Definition=(v. sub fin.), I<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[say]], the 1st pers. of pres. being used in Att. dialogue in emphatic repetitions, [[παῖ ἠμί, παῖ]] = [[boy]] [[I]] [[say]], boy! Ar.Nu.1145, Ra.37; otherwise only in 3sg. ἠσί Hermipp.1, Aeol. ἦσι Sapph.97, Dor. ἠτί Alcm.139.<br><span class="bld">II</span> impf. [[ἦν]], 3sg. [[ἦ]] (the only part used by Hom., chiefly in Il., always at the end of a speech), ἦ, καὶ ἐπ' ἀργυρέῃ κώπῃ σχέθε χεῖρα he spake and... Il.1.219, etc.; ἦ ῥα, καὶ ἀμπεπαλὼν προΐει . . ἔγχος 3.355, etc.; rarely with the subject expressed, ἦ ῥα γυνὴ ταμίη 6.390, cf. Theoc.22.75: freq. in Att. in the phrases [[ἦν δ' ἐγώ]] = [[said I]], Pl.R.327c, etc.; [[ἦ δ' ὅς]] = [[said he]], Cratin.192, etc.; ἦ δ' ὃς λέγων Ar.V.795; ἦ δ' ἥ Pl.Smp.205c; with the subject repeated, ἦ δ' ὃς ὁ Γλαύκων Id.R.327b, etc.; later without ὅς, ἦ δ' ὁ Νεῖλος Philostr. [[V A]]6.16. (Cf. Lat. [[aio]], [[adagium]]: [[ἦ]] fr. *ἧκτ, hence [[ἠμί]] etc. on analogy of [[φῆ]]: [[φημί]], etc.)