Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /en dé/ → /en ðe/ → /en ðe/
Adverb
ἐν δέ • (en dé)
- and therein
- and among them
- (not in Attic prose) and besides, moreover
800 BCE – 600 BCE,
Homer,
Odyssey 5.260–261:
[1]- ἐν δ’ ὑπέρας τε κάλους τε πόδας τ’ ἐνέδησεν ἐν αὐτῇ,
μοχλοῖσιν δ’ ἄρα τήν γε κατείρυσεν εἰς ἅλα δῖαν.- en d’ hupéras te kálous te pódas t’ enédēsen en autēî,
mokhloîsin d’ ára tḗn ge kateírusen eis hála dîan.
- 1919 translation by Augustus Taber Murray[2]
- And he made fast in the raft braces and halyards and sheets,
and then with levers forced it down into the bright sea.
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