εἶα, an exclamation used to cheer or urge on,
A. on! up! away! used with the imper. sg. or pl., cf. E. Med. 820 , etc.;εἶα δή come then! A. Ag. 1650 , Ar. Th. 659 ;εἶά νυν well now! Id. Pax 467 ; ἄγ' εἶα
Id. Ra. 396
; ἀλλ' εἶα
E. HF 622
, Ar. Pl. 760 ; ὦ εἶα
Id. Pax 459
;εἶα ὦib. 468 ; ἀλλ' εἶα δὴ . . σκεψώμεθα
Pl. Sph. 239b
:—with interrog.οὐ, where the question is equivalent to a command,οὐκ εἶα . . δραμεῖσθε; E. IT 1423 , cf. Hel. 1597 . ( εἷα
S. Ichn. 87
, cf. Hdn.Gr. 1.495 .)