ἔπειτα
See also: έπειτα
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ἔπειθ’ (épeith’) – apocopic, before a rough breathing
- ἔπειτ’ (épeit’) – apocopic, before a smooth breathing
- ἔπειτεν (épeiten) – Ionic
Etymology
From ἐπί (epí, “upon”) + εἶτα (eîta).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /é.peː.ta/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈe.pi.ta/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈe.pi.ta/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈe.pi.ta/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈe.pi.ta/
Adverb
ἔπειτα • (épeita)
- (of mere sequence, without any notion of cause) thereupon, thereafter, then
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.48
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.169
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 15.140
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.551
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 171
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.214
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.783
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.527
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 10.297
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 8.378
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.106
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.497
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.55
- 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 18A
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.33
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.3.14
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.3.24
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 724
- 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 147C
- 411 BCE, Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 556
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 61
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 305
- (with the article) what follows
- 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 611
- 413 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 1265
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 672
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 116A
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Philebus 39E
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.5.9
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.64
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 67D
- 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Parmenides 152B
- (like εἶτα, with a finite verb after a participle)
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 14.223
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 11.730
- 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 267
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 29
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 82C
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 654
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 438
- 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 496
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 761
- 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 498
- 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 29
- 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 519E
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 319D
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 336B
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 310C
- 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 624
- 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 536
- (in apodoses, though never at the beginning of the clause, in Homer often strengthened)
- (after a temporal conjunction) then, thereafter
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 8.378
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.247
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 11.121
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.545
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.223
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.522
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.478
- (after a conditional conjunction) then, surely
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 7.360
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.453
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.290
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.394
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.243
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.547
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.392
- (of sequence in thought, i.e. consequence or inference) then, therefore
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 17.185
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 15.49
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.357
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.812
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 345
- (to begin a story)
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.354
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 9.116
- (in Attic often to introduce emphatic questions)
- 388 BCE, Aristophanes, Plutus 827
- 411 BCE, Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 188
- 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 226
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.4.11
- 431 BCE, Euripides, Medea 1398
- 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 126
- 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 963
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Symposium 4.2
- 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 911
- 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 1217
- 425 BCE, Aristophanes, Lysistrata 985
- 438 BCE, Euripides, Alcestis 822
Derived terms
- μετέπειτα (metépeita)
Further reading
- “ἔπειτα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἔπειτα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἔπειτα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἔπειτα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἔπειτα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ἔπειτα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G1899 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- afterwards idem, page 17.
- anon idem, page 31.
- hereafter idem, page 397.
- hereupon idem, page 397.
- next idem, page 557.
- one idem, page 573.
- subsequently idem, page 832.
- then idem, page 865.
- thereafter idem, page 865.