τάχᾰ,Adv., (τᾰχύς)
A. quickly, presently, forthwith, freq.in Hom. , who,like
Pi. ( O. 2.29 , 4.83 , al.) and B. ( 5.89 ), uses it only of time, Il. 1.205 , 2.193 ,al.;ἦ τ.sooni'faith, Od. 18.73 , 338 ; of past time, τ. δ' Ἕκτορος ἄγχι γένοντο
Il. 8.117
: also in Trag.and (more rarely) Att. Prose and Com., withfut., τάχ' εἴσομαι
A. Th. 261
, cf. Ag. 489 , 1649 , Ch. 305 , S. OT 84 , Ar. Ra. 527 , Pl. Sph. 247d , etc.;ἔοικα θεσπιῳδήσειν τ. A. Ag. 1161 ;πέμψον πρὸς ἐμὲ τ. Sammelb. 7356.25
(ii A.D.); in this sense not found in LXX or in Papyri (exc. l.c.);τάχα ἐπειδάν,
= ἐπειδὰν τάχιστα ,as soon as, Pl. Phdr. 242a .
II. perhaps, to express any contingency from a probability to bare possibility, δὶς μὲν γὰρ καὶ τρὶς τ. τεύξεαι
Hes. Op. 401
; τ. οὐδὲ τεθέασθε τυραννουμένην πόλιν
Pl. Lg. 711a