πάλιν

πάλῐν [pron. full] [ᾰ], poet. also [full] πάλι (q.v), Adv.

1 of Place, back, backwards (the usual sense in early [dialect] Ep.), mostly joined with Verbs of going, coming, etc.;

π. χώρει Hdt.5.72

; π. ἐλεύσεται, κατελθεῖν, ἐπανέλθωμεν, A.Pr.854, S.OC601, Pl.Cra.438a, etc.;

κέλευθον ἥνπερ ἦλθες ἐγκόνει π. A.Pr.962

;

δίκα καὶ πάντα π. στρέφεται E.Med.412

(lyr.); δεῦρο σωθήσῃ π. Id.Ph.725, cf. 1400; δόμεναι π. give back, restore, Il.1.116, etc.;

π. ἀποδοῦναι And.2.23

; π. ἀγκαλέσαι to call back, A.Ag.1021 (lyr.): less freq. c. gen., π. τράπεθ' υἷος ἑοῖο she turned back from her son, Il.18.138;

δόρυ Ἀχιλλῆος π. ἔτραπεν 20.439

, cf. Od.7.143: coupled with other Advbs.,

π. αὖτις ἔβαινον νηὸς ἐπὶ γλαφυρῆς 14.356

, cf. Pi.O.1.65; αὖ π. Od.13.125;

ἂψ π. Il.18.280

;

π. εἶσιν ὀπίσσω Od.11.149

;

π. φέρεσθαι ἐξοπίσω Hes.Th. 181

; ἄψορρον π. S.El.53; π. οἴκαδε, π. οἴκαδ' αὖ, Ar.Lys.792, Ra.1486;

π. αὖ Pl.Prt.318e

, etc.: with the Art.,

ἡ π. ὁδός E.Or.125

.

2 to express contradiction, π. ἐρέει gainsay, Il.9.56; π. ὅ γε λάζετο μῦθον took back his word, unsaid it, 4.357; opp. ἀληθέα εἰπεῖν, Od.13.254; μηδέ τῳ δόξῃ π. let no one think contrariwise, A.Th.1045: in Prose, contrariwise, Pl.Grg.482d;

π. αὖ Id.R.507b

; αὖ . . π. Id.Ap.27d: in this sense sts. c. gen., τὸ π. νεότατος youth's opposite, Pi.O.10(11).87; χρόνου τὸ π. the change of time, E.HF777(lyr.); cf. ἔμπαλιν.

II of Time, again, once more, rare in Hom., Il.2.276, cf. S.OT1166, X. Mem.1.6.11, etc.: freq. coupled with αὖ, αὖθις (q.v.);

π. ἐξ ἀρχῆς Ar.Pax997

, etc.; π. καὶ π. Str.17.1.3, Plu.2.565d, Ael.VH1.4; ἔγχει καὶ π. εἰπέ, π. π. Ἡλιοδώρας" AP5.135 (Mel.): both senses (I and II) are appropriate in Od.16.456, Pl.Prt.322b, etc.

III in turn, S.El.371, Ar.Ach.342, Call.Dian.87, etc.;

π. ὁ Κῦρος ἠρώτα X.An. 1.6.7

;

π. ἀπαιτῶ Pl.R.612d

; again, πρῶτον μέν . . ἔπειτα π. Arist.Pol. 1289b29, etc. (In compos. πάλιν sts. means doubly, as in παλιμμήκης, παλίνσκιος.)