μόλῐς,
adverb, post-[[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus synonym of μόγις] Refs 8th c.BC+], prevailing in Trag., Comedy texts, and Attic dialect prose, though in [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus and later prose μόγις was preferred (in 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+] the Laur. Ms. gives each form twice, the same Ms. of [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus μόλις always)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μ. μέν, ἀλλ᾽ ὅμως ἠνεσχόμην [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1363, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 290, 1105, “El.” 575, “Ph.” 329 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ζῶντι καὶ μάλα μ. nay, only just alive, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 142b (codex W μόγις)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μ. καὶ ἠρέμα πάσχειν scarcely at all.., [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1019a31 (codex Ab μόγις); ἢ ὅλως οὐκ ἔστιν ἢ μ. [prev. author] “Ph.” 217b32; μ. πάνυ 4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 30; πάνυ μ. 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 88.8: with a _negative_, οὐ μ.] Refs 4th c.BC+] not scarcely, i.e. quite, utterly, ἀπώλεσας οὐ μ. [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1082; θυραῖος ἔστω πόλεμος, οὐ μ. παρών [prev. author] “Eu.” 864 (where Scholia explains οὐ μ. by οὐ μακράν, but the sense is uncertain)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; θέλουσαν οὐ μ. καλεῖς [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 334 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]