ἀεί,
adverb ever, always, [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; with other specifications of time, ἐμμενὲς αἰεί[[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.69; συνεχὲς αἰ. 9.74] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀ. καθ᾽ ἡμέραν, καθ᾽ ἡμέραν ἀ., ἀ. καὶ καθ᾽ ἡμέραν, ἀ. κατ᾽ ἐνιαυτόν, ἀ. διὰ βίου, etc., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 75d, etc.; ἀ. πανταχοῦ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.197, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Eq..” 568; διὰ παντὸς ἀ. “Pax” 397; ἐνδελεχῶς ἀ. 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 521] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δεῦρ᾽ ἀεί until now, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1663, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 811c] Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἰεί κοτε, ποτε from of old, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.58, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.82; αἰ. δήποτε 1.13] Refs 5th c.BC+]; compare εἰσαεί:—with the Article, ὁ ἀ. χρόνος eternity, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.54, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 103e, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ ἀ. ὄντες the immortals, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.46, etc.:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —but ὁ αἰ. βασιλεύων the king for the time being, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.98; οἱ ἀ. δικάζοντες 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.223] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ αἰ. ἐντὸς γιγνόμενος every one as he got inside, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.68; τὸν ἀ. προστυχόντα 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.131] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοῖσι τούτων αἰ. ἐκγόνοισι to their descendants for ever, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.105, compare 3.83, etc.; in 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 937, θῶπτε τὸν κρατοῦντ᾽ ἀ., ἀεί is postponed for the sake of meter—Dialectic forms (cf. Hdn.Gr. 1.497] Refs 5th c.BC+], Et.Gud.z):
__1 αἰεί, Epic dialect, Ionic dialect, poetical, and Early Attic dialect [[compare (4th c.AD(?): Marcellinus Biographus “Vita Thucydidis” 52); found (beside ἀεί) in _Attic dialect_ Inscrr. to 4th c.BC ] Refs 4th c.BC+]