ἐπεί: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=<br />conjunct., [[temporal]] and causal, like Lat. [[quum]]:<br />A. OF TIME, [[after]] that, [[after]] ([[postquam]]), [[since]], [[when]] ([[quum]]), with aor. to [[express]] a [[complete]] [[action]], or imperf. to [[express]] one not yet [[complete]], [[ἐπεὶ]] ὑπηντίαζεν ἡ [[φάλαγξ]] καὶ ἡ [[σάλπιγξ]] ἐφθέγξατο [[after]] the [[phalanx]] began to [[advance]] and the [[trumpet]] had sounded, Xen.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> = ἐξ οὗ, from the [[time]] [[when]], [[ever]] [[since]], [[ἐπείτε]] [[παρέλαβον]] τὸν [[θρόνον]] [[since]] I came to the [[throne]], Hdt.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> with Subjunct., ἄν or κε [[being]] added, so that [[ἐπεί]] becomes [[ἐπάν]], [[ἐπήν]], ionic [[ἐπεάν]], or [[ἐπεί]] κε; — referring to [[future]] [[time]], ἐπὴν ἕλωμεν [[when]] we shall [[have]] taken the [[city]], Il.:—also [[whenever]], [[ἐπεί]] κε λίπῃ ὀστέα [[θυμός]] Od.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> with Opt. without ἄν, referring to [[future]] [[time]], [[ἐπειδὴ]] πρὸς τὸ φῶς ἔλθοι [[after]] he had [[come]] [[into]] the [[light]], Plat.:—also [[whenever]], [[ἐπεὶ]] πύθοιτο Xen.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> in oratione obl. [[after]] [[past]] tenses, representing a subj. in orat. rect., [[ἐπεὶ]] διαβαίης, the [[direct]] [[form]] [[being]] ἐπὴν διαβῶ, Xen.<br /><b class="num">IV.</b> with [[other]] words, [[ἐπεὶ]] [[τάχιστα]], as [[soon]] as, Lat. [[quum]] [[primum]], Xen.; [[ἐπεὶ]] [[εὐθέως]] Xen.; [[ἐπειδὴ]] [[τάχιστα]] Plat.; [[ἐπειδὴ]] [[θᾶττον]] Dem.<br />B. CAUSAL, [[since]], [[seeing]] that, with Ind. or Opt. with ἄν, Hom., etc.; with Imp., [[ἐπεὶ]] δίδαξον for [[teach]] me, Soph.; [[ἐπεὶ]] πῶς ἂν καλέσειας; for how would you [[call]] him? Ar.:—[[sometimes]] it may be rendered by [[although]], or by [[else]], [[otherwise]].<br /><b class="num">2.</b> with [[other]] Particles, [[ἐπεὶ]] ἄρα, [[ἐπεὶ]] ἂρ δή [[since]] then, Od.; [[ἐπεί]] γε, Lat. [[quandoquidem]], [[since]] [[indeed]], Hdt.; [[ἐπείπερ]] [[seeing]] that, Aesch., etc.; [[ἐπεί]] τοι [[since]] [[surely]], Soph.