Included with: μάλα [μᾰλᾰ;
but [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] sometimes uses the ultima long before λ, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.214, 4.379 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; before μ, [[ 10.172], ] Refs] adverb very, exceedingly, prefixed or subjoined to Adjectives, Verbs, and Adverbs:
__1 strengthening the word with which it stands,
__1.a with adjectives, in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus most frequently, μάλα πολλά] Refs 8th c.BC+] very many, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.1 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; μ. πᾶσα, μ. πάντα, every one, all together, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.741, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.306, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; μάλ᾽ ἀσκηθής all unhurt, [[ 5.26 ] Refs]; ἀβληχρὸς μ. τοῖος quite gentle, [[ 11.135 ] Refs]; σαρδάνιον μ. τοῖον a quite sardonic smile,[[ 20.302; μάλα μυρίοι 15.556, 16.121, etc.] Refs]; ἐμέο πρότερος μ. actually before me, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.124 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; later, μ. φιλόσοφοι, πλάτανος μάλ᾽ ἀμφιλαφής, etc., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Parmenides” 126b, “Phdr.” 230b, etc.: strengthened, μ. δὴ πρεσβύτης] Refs 5th c.BC+] very old, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.7.1; μ. γέ τινες ὀλίγοι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 531e. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__1.b with Advs., πάγχυ μ., μ. πάγχυ, quite utterly, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.165, 14.143; πάνυ μ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 80c ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; εὖ μ. right well, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.190, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 92d, etc.; μάλα.. εὖ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.175, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 156a ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; μάλ᾽ αὐτίκα (see. αὐτίκα); μάλ᾽ αἰεί for ever and aye, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.557, 23.717 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἄχρι μ. κνέφαος until quite dark, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.370 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; μάλ᾽ ὧδε just in this way, [[ 6.258 ] Refs]; μ. διαμπερές right through, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.362 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; μ. μόλις (see. μόλις); to express repeated action, μάλ᾽ αὖθις [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1345, “Ch.” 654; μάλ᾽ αὖ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1410, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μ. alone, ἔα, ἔα μ. [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 870; οἲ μ. καὶ τόδ᾽ ἀλγῶ [prev. author] “Pers.” 1045 (Lyric poetry); εἶα μ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 460s q. (so ἄλλος πύργος.., καὶ ἕτερος μ. ἐπὶ τούτῳ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.181, compare 7.186): frequently after καί, αὗταί σ᾽ ὁδηγήσουσι καὶ μάλ᾽ ἀσμένως 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 728, compare “Ch.” 879: with _negative_, μάλ᾽ οὐ, μάλ᾽ οὔ πως, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.241, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.103; οὐ μ. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.93, 2.37, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 676 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 8th c.BC+]