εἴτε,
Doric dialect αἴτε, generally doubled, εἴτε..εἴτε.., Latin sive..sive.., either..or.., whether..or.., so that two cases are put as equally possible or equivalent; thrice repeated, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 606; εἴτ᾽ οὖν.., εἴτε.. [prev. author] “OT” 1049; εἴτ᾽ οὖν.., εἴτε καί.. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 843; εἴτ᾽ οὖν.., εἴτ᾽ οὖν.. [prev. author] “Ch.” 683; εἴτε.., εἴτ᾽ ἄρ᾽ οὖν.. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 345; εἴτε.., εἴτ᾽ αὖ.. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 34b; εἴτε καί.., εἴτε καί.. [prev. author] “R.” 471d: with Substantives, τὴν εἴθ᾽ ἡδονὴν εἴτε ἀπονίαν ἢ εὐστάθειαν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.1089d: the first εἴτε] Refs 5th c.BC+] is sometimes omitted in Poets, ξεῖνος, αἴτ᾽ ὦν ἀστός [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.78; αἰνεῖν, εἴτε με ψέγειν θέλεις 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1403; μύραινά γ᾽, εἴτ᾽ ἔχιδν᾽ ἔφυ [prev. author] “Ch.” 1002; λόγοισιν, εἴτ᾽ ἔργοισιν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 517, compare “Tr.” 236 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; and even in Prose, πόλις, εἴτε ἰδιῶται [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 864a, compare 907d, “Sph.” 224e: the first εἴτε is sometimes replaced by εἰ, as εἰ..εἴτε..,] Refs 5th c.BC+] Latin utrum..an.., variant in [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.35; εἰ.. εἴτε καί.. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 768; εἰ..εἴτε μή [prev. author] “Eu.” 468; εἰ μὲν.., εἴτε καὶ μή.. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.1.7 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; sometimes ἤ (ἠὲ καί.. variant in [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.349) stands for the second εἴτε, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 896, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 277d, “IG” 1.40.5; or for the first, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 178 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 115 (Lyric poetry) ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; εἴτε.. εἴτε.., with subjunctive (compare εἰ), variant in [[ 4th c.BC: Archytas Tarentinus Philosophus ap 5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes 3.1.105. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]