ἐάν(so early Attic Inscrr., as IG 12.3.20 ,εἰάνsts. after B.C. 400 , ib. 22.28.17 , cf. PEleph. 1.8 , 10
(iv B.C.)), also contr.
ἤνandἄν,
A.
v. ἤν, ἄν (B)[ᾱ], which by crasis withκαίbecomeκἄν:—if haply, if, regularly folld. bysubj.: for its use and for examples, v. εἰ
B. 11 , andἄν(A) B. 1.1 .
II. in Hellenistic and late Greek, = ἄν after relative Pronouns and Conjunctions, asὃς ἐάνwhosoever, LXX Ge. 15.14 , PTeb. 107.8
(ii B. C.), Ev.Matt. 5.19 , al.; ὅσος ἐάν
PPetr. 3p.120
(iii B.C.), Ev.Matt. 18.18 ; ὅστις ἐάν
Ph. 1.220
, M.Ant. 9.23 ; ὅπου ἐάν
Ev.Matt. 8.19
, etc.; ὅθεν ἐάν
Gp. 1.3.3