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πάλαι
πάλαι
Ancient Greek
Adverb
πάλαι • (pálai)
- (of a point in the past)
- long ago, in days past
- Of past time closer to the present: before, earlier, a while ago
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Cr. 43.b
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Σωκράτης: ἄρτι δὲ ἥκεις ἢ πάλαι;
Κρίτων: ἐπιεικῶς πάλαι.- Socrates: Did you arrive just now or a while ago?
Crito: Quite a while ago.
- Socrates: Did you arrive just now or a while ago?
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Σωκράτης: ἄρτι δὲ ἥκεις ἢ πάλαι;
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- with a present-tense verb since a point in the past, for a long time
Derived terms
- παλαιός (palaiós, “old”)
References
- πάλαι in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πάλαι in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πάλαι in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- «πάλαι» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- «πάλαι» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- πάλαι in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- “G3819”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.