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