ἔτος, εος, τό,
irregular dative ἔτῃ [[ “IG” 2.1059.18 ] Refs]:—year, τῶν προτέρων ἐτέων in bygone years, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.691 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τόδ᾽ ἐεικοστὸν ἔ. ἐστὶν ἐξ οὗ[[.. 24.765, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.89, 19.222; ὅτε.. ὄγδοόν μοι ἐπιπλόμενον ἔ. ἦλθε 7.261 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἔ. ἐνιαυτῶν, see at {ἐνιαυτό; ἑκάστου ἔτους} [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 58b; ἀν᾽ ἕκαστον ἔ. 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.4.4; ἀνὰ πᾶν ἔ. “Anthologia Graeca” 9.430 (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Crinagoras Epigrammaticus); ἀνὰ πάντα ἔτεα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.65 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δι᾽ ἔτους πέμπτου every fifth year, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 584 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κατὰ ἔ. every year, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.53, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 3.2, NT.Luke.2.41, etc. (frequently καθ᾽ ἕ., as “PPetr.” 3p.34 (3rd c.BC) and later)] NT+5th c.BC+]; ἔ. εἰς ἔ. year after year, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 340 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δι᾽ ἔτους annually, [[ 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.19, 378; εἰς ἔ. 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus “Epigrammata” 13.4; εἰς ἔ. ἐξ ἔτεος [prev. author] 18.15; ἔ. ἐξ ἔτους LXX.Lev.25.50 ] LXX+3rd c.BC+]; παρὰ ἔ. every other year, [[ 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 9.32.3 (but πὰρ ϝέτος ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]yearly, [[ Tab.Heracl. 1.101); πάλαι πολλὰ ἤδη ἔτη 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 18b; τρίτῳ ἔτει 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.101; τρίτῳ ἔτεϊ πρότερον 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.40 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τρίτῳ ἔτεϊ τούτων in the third year after this, [[[prev. passage], etc.] Refs]; frequently in accusative, ἔ. τόδ᾽ ἤδη δέκατον.. βόσκων now for these ten years, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 312; τύραννος ἐγεγόνει ἤδη χιλιοστὸν ἔτος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 615c, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 3.4, 33.23 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a person's age, γεγονὼς ἔτη τρία ἀπολείποντα τῶν ἑκατόν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.270; οἱ ὑπὲρ τὰ στρατεύσιμα ἔτη γεγονότες 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.2.4, compare 13, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; without γεγονώς, τοὺς ὑπὲρ τετταράκοντα ἔτη [[ [prev. author] “An.” 5.3.1; οἱ μέχρι τετταράκοντα ἐτῶν [prev. work] 6.4.25 ] Refs], etc.: in genitive, ἐπειδὰν ἐτῶν ᾖ τις τριάκοντα [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 721b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μυρίων ἐτῶν within a period of [[ 10, 000 ] Refs]years, [[ [prev. author] “Phdr.” 248e; ὥρα ἔτους, see at {ὥρα} 1. ] Refs]