ἀεί

ἀεί, Adv.

A ever, always, Hom., etc.; with other specifications of time,

ἐμμενὲς αἰεί Od.21.69

;

συνεχὲς αἰ. 9.74

; ἀ. καθ' ἡμέραν, καθ' ἡμέραν ἀ., ἀ. καὶ καθ' ἡμέραν, ἀ. κατ' ἐνιαυτόν, ἀ. διὰ βίου, etc., Pl.Phd. 75d, etc.;

ἀ. πανταχοῦ D.21.197

, cf. Ar.Eq..568;

διὰ παντὸς ἀ. Pax 397

;

ἐνδελεχῶς ἀ. Men.521

; δεῦρ' ἀεί until now, E.Or.1663, Pl.Lg. 811c; αἰεί κοτε, ποτε from of old, Hdt.1.58, Th.6.82;

αἰ. δήποτε 1.13

; cf. εἰσαεί:—with the Art., ὁ ἀ. χρόνος eternity, Hdt.1.54, Pl.Phd. 103e, etc.; οἱ ἀ. ὄντες the immortals, X.Cyr.1.6.46, etc.:—but ὁ αἰ. βασιλεύων the king for the time being, Hdt.2.98;

οἱ ἀ. δικάζοντες D. 21.223

; ὁ αἰ. ἐντὸς γιγνόμενος every one as he got inside, Th.4.68;

τὸν ἀ. προστυχόντα D.21.131

; τοῖσι τούτων αἰ. ἐκγόνοισι to their descendants for ever, Hdt.1.105, cf. 3.83, etc.; in A.Pr.937, θῶπτε τὸν κρατοῦντ' ἀ., ἀεί is postponed metri gr.—Dialectic forms (cf. Hdn.Gr.1.497, Et.Gud.z):

1 [full] αἰεί, [dialect] Ep., [dialect] Ion., Poet., and Early [dialect] Att. (cf. Marcellin.Vit. Thuc.52); found (beside ἀεί) in [dialect] Att. Inscrr. to 361 B.C.

2 [full] ἀεί [[pron. full] ᾰ three times in Hom., ᾱ?ἀείX [dialect] Att.] normal in [dialect] Att. Inscrr. from 361 B.C.

3 [full] αἰέν, Il.1.290, al. (ἆεν is v.l. in Il. 11.827), Pi.N.6.3, Sophr.90, A.Pr.428, Ag.891, S.Aj.682.

4 [dialect] Dor. [full] αἰές, Ar.Lys.1266, BionFr.1.1; also [full] ἀές, Tab.Heracl.1.134.

5 [dialect] Aeol. [full] αἶι( [full] ν), [full] ἄιν, Hdn.Gr.l.c.; cf.IG 9(2).461 (ἄϊν, Thess.), SIG58 (Milet.), and v. ἀϊπάρθενος, ἀείδασμος.

6 [full] αἰέ, Hdn.Gr.l.c.

7 [full] ἀέ, Pi.P.9.88, Pisand.11 ([etym.] ᾰἐ); cf. ἀέ-ναος.

8 [dialect] Boeot. ἠί, Hdn. Gr.l.c.

9 [dialect] Tarent. [full] αἰή, ibid.

II τὸ ἀ. eternity,

τὸ ἀ. τοῦτο οὐκ αἰώνιόν ἐστιν ἀλλὰ χρονικόν Procl.Inst.198

. The statement of Harp. that ἀεί = ἕως in [dialect] Att. is based on misinterpretation of such phrases as

ἐς τόνδε αἰ. τὸν πόλεμον Th.1.18

. (

αἰϝεί Epigr.Gr.742

, GDI60.31 (Cypr.), IG9(1).334.4 ([dialect] Locr.), cf. Lat. aevum.)