Sense

1. why? wherefore?

Examples

• καὶ τὰ φέρει ἀεκαζόμενοσ τετληότι θυμῷ καὶ τοῖοσ γὰρ νόοσ ἐστὶν ἐπιχθονίων ἀνθρώπων, οἱο͂ν ἐπ’ ἦμαρ ἄγῃσι πατὴρ ἀνδρῶν τε θεῶν τε καὶ ἐν ἄλλοισ Τυδείδη μεγάθυμε, τίη γενεὴν ἐρεείνεισ; (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 6 15:1)
• καὶ Γλαῦκε, τίη δὲ σὺ τοῖοσ ἐὼν ὑπέροπλον ἐείπασ; (Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat, chapter, section 11 32:1)
• τίη δειδίσσεαι οὕτωσ Ἀργείουσ; (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 26 2:3)
• "Ξεῖνε, τίη μίμνοντεσ ἐπὶ χρόνον ἔκτοθι πύργων ἧσθ’ αὔτωσ; (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 14:23)
• ἀλλὰ τίη με πάλιν χρειὼ ἀλιτέσθαι μαντοσύνῃ τὰ ἕκαστα διηνεκὲσ ἐξενέποντα; (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 6:37)
• τιὴ τί δή; (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Prologue, iambics21)
• τιή; (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Episode 2:20)
• τιή; (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Lyric-Scene, antistrophe 2 4:13)
• τιή; (Aristophanes, Peace, Lyric-Scene10)
• τιὴ τί δή; (Aristophanes, Peace, Lyric-Scene, iambics5)

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