βρᾰχύς, εῖα
(Ionic dialect έα [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.49)] Refs 5th c.BC+], ύ, dative plural βραχέοις [[ “JHS” 33.317 (Thess.): _comparative_ βραχύτερος, βραχίων (compare βράσσων): _superlative_ βραχύτατος, βράχιστος] Refs]:—short,
__1 of Space and Time, β. οἶμος, ὁδός, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.248, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 718e, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; [αἰών] probably in [[ 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 3.74; βίος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.46; καιρός 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Epigrammata” 9; χρόνος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 939, “Pers.” 713, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μῦθος, λόγος, [[ [prev. author] “Pr.” 505, variant in “Pers.” 713 ] Refs]; ἐν βραχεῖ (Ionic dialect βραχέϊ) in a short time, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.24, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 217a codices; διὰ βραχέος 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.83; μακρὰν συνήθειαν βραχεῖ λῦσαι χρόνῳ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 726 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; βραχὺ τῃδὶ μεταστῶμεν for a moment, [[ [prev. author] “Georg.” 32 ] Refs]; of distance, β. ἀπόδοσις short return in ballplay, [[ 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 234.6; ἐπὶ βραχὺ ἐξικνεῖσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.3.17 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πρὸ βραχέος lamb.[[ “VP” 25.112] Refs]: comparative, ἡ φάλαγξ -υτέρα ἐγένετο ἀναδιπλουμένη [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.5.5; τάξιν -υτέραν ἢ πρόσθεν, βαθυτέραν δὲ ποιήσαντες 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.33.10; βραχύτερα τοξεύειν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.3.7. ] Refs 5th c.BC+] adverb βραχέως, [πολέμους] ἐπ᾽ ἀλλήλους ἐπιφέρειν scantily, seldom, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.141. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]