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εἴθε

Adverb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εἴθε

Sense

  1. would that!

Examples

  • εἴθε ἦν ὁ μεσίτησ ἡμῶν καὶ ἐλέγχων καὶ διακούων ἀνὰ μέσον ἀμφοτέρων. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 9:33)
  • εἴθε σε, ἔφη, Ἕλληνα μᾶλλον ἢ Ῥωμαῖον πεποιήκει. (Lucian, (no name) 40:2)
  • Ἡροδότου εἴθε μὲν καὶ τὰ ἄλλα μιμήσασθαι δυνατὸν ἦν· (Lucian, Herodotus 1:1)
  • ὡσ εἴθε καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἀνεκόπησαν τότε αἱ τόλμαι εὐθὺσ ἀρξαμένων παρανομεῖν, καὶ οὐκ ἂν ἐπολέμει μέχρι νῦν τὸ Λάμβδα τῷ Ῥῶ διαμφισβητοῦν περὶ τῆσ κισήρεωσ καὶ κεφαλαργίασ, οὔτε τὸ Γάμμα τῷ Κάππα διηγωνίζετο καὶ ἐσ χεῖρασ μικροῦ δεῖν ἤρχετο πολλάκισ ἐν τῷ γναφείῳ ὑπὲρ γναφάλλων, ἐπέπαυτο δ’ ἂν καὶ πρὸσ τὸ Λάμβδα μαχόμενον, τὸ μόγισ ἀφαιρούμενον αὐτοῦ καὶ μάλιστα παρακλέπτον, καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ δ’ ἂν ἠρέμει συγχύσεωσ ἄρχεσθαι παρανόμου· (Lucian, Judicium vocalium, (no name) 4:1)
  • ὦ φίλοσ, εἴθε μοι σᾷ χερὶ καὶ σῷ δορὶ πρά‐ ξασ τάδ’ ἐσ οἶκον ἔλθοισ. (Euripides, Rhesus, choral, strophe 22)

Synonyms

  1. would that!

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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