λίαν
[see. near the end], Ionic dialect and Epic dialect λίην, adverb very, exceedingly, in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] with an adverb, λ. ἑκάς [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.496; λ. ἀεικελίως 8.231 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: with an adjective, λ. μέγα εἶπες [[ 3.227, 16.243; νήπιος λ. τόσον 4.371, compare 13.238; λ. λυπρός 13.243; λ. ἐνθύμιος [prev. work] 421 ] Refs]: alone with a Verb, very much, overmuch, κεχολώατο λ. [[ 14.282; λ. ἄχθομαι ἕλκος 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.361 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; οὔ τι λ. ποθὴ ἔσσεται not exceedingly,[[ 14.368; μή τι λ. προκαλίζεο 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.20, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.486; also, in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, καὶ λίην] Refs 8th c.BC+], which always begins the sentence or verse, surely, aye surely, καὶ λ. κεῖνός γε ἐοικότι κεῖται ὀλέθρῳ [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.46, compare 3.203, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.553, +others ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II after [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, ἀσχάλα μὴ λίην 7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 66.7, compare 6th c.BC: Solon Lyricus 6; λίην δὲ δειλιάζεις 6th c.BC: Anacreon Lyricus cited in Ptolemaeus Ascalonita p.409 H.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; λ. πιστεύειν to believe implicitly, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.96; μὴ κάμνε λ. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.90; μὴ λ. στένε 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1172, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 158 (Lyric poetry); ἀσπάζου αὐτὴν λ. “POxy.” 936.13 (3rd c.AD)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; καὶ λ. σαφῶς [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 1231; λ. ἀσελγῶς 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 24.15; λ. πόρρω 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 310c; ἐντὸς λ. τῶν τειχῶν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.5 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with other words of [[like sense, πολὺ λ. 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 9.48; λ. πάνυ 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 184.2 (uncertain), compare 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 972.46 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κόμπος λ. εἰρημένος, opposed to πεπλασμένος (compare our very and verily), [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1031:] Refs 4th c.BC+] —in Trag.and Comedy texts frequently between _Article_ and Noun, ἡ λ. φιλότης βροτῶν his too great love.., [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 123 (_anapaest meter_); τὸ λ. ποτόν 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 187; ἡ λ. τρυφή 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 587 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ λ. μειράκια Theopomp.[[ Comedy texts 29; αἱ πρὸς τυράννους λίαν ὁμιλίαι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 6.21 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὸ λ. excess, violence, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 866, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 415c. [8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] has ῐ nine times, ῑ thirty-two times; the latter is found both in arsi and in thesi. In later Epic dialect and Trag. both quantities are found: ᾱ always.]