STEP Liddell–Scott–Jones: τανῦν

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now

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(for νυν, νυ, see infr. II), adverb now, both of the present moment, and of the present time generally, οἳ ν. βροτοί εἰσιν mortals of our day, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.272 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; so in Ionic dialect and Attic dialect, οἱ ν. [ἄνθρωποι] men of the present day, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.68; οἵ γε ν. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.105, 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 5.4, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1069a26 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ ν. τρόπος, τὸ ν. βαρβαρικόν, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Βοιωτοὶ οἱ ν.[[ [prev. work] 12; ὁ ν. παρὼν χρόνος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 174, +others, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Parmenides” 141e; ἡμέρα ἡ ν. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 351; νὺξ ἡ ν. [prev. author] “Ant.” 16; ἡ ν. ὁδός [prev. author] “El.” 1295; τὸ ν. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]the present, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physica” 218a6, +others; ἀπὸ τοῦ ν. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Parmenides” 152c, LXX.Gen.46.30, etc.; ἀπὸ ν. “Anthologia Graeca” 5.40 (2nd-3rd c.AD: Rufinus Epigrammaticus); ἕως τοῦ ν. LXX.Gen.46.34 ] LXX+5th c.BC+]; μέχρι ν. (variant{μ. τοῦ ν}.) [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 17.110 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; τὰ νῦν simply, ={ν}., [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.104, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 641, etc.; τό περ ν. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 7.101; τὰ δὲ ν. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 133 (Lyric poetry); τὸ ν. εἶναι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 506e, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.3.42, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 31.2; τὸ ν. ἔχον NT.Act.24.25. ] NT+5th c.BC+]

__2 of the immediate past, just now, but now, ν. Μενέλαος ἐνίκησεν [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.439, compare 13.772, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.43, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 84, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.5.48; ν. γοῦν ἐπεχείρησας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 341c; ἡλίκα ν. ἐτραγῴδει 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.13. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]

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__II.4 in questions, τίς ν.; τί ν.; who, what, why now? [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.373, 1.414, 4.31 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἦ νυ..; [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.125. [In signf. I always _perispomenon_ In signf. II _perispomenon_ except when short, Hdn.Gr. 2.39, +others; _enclitic_ when short, sometimes in codices, as 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.485 (Papyrus in “AJP” 21.304, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; oxytone when ={δή}, Tyrannioap.Hdn.Gr.2.27; καθ᾽ ὁμαλισμόν or κατ᾽ ἔγκλισιν when=δή, [[Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 414, Scholia 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 1.664)] Refs 5th c.BC+]. In codices usually perispomenon in both senses, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 82, “Th.” 242, 246, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 705, “El.” 324, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 414, “V.” 758, 922, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; even νῠν is written νῦν in codices vett. [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus ] Refs 5th c.BC+] passim, also in [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 87, “Tr.” 92, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; hence νυν may frequently be restored where the sense requires it. The accent of τοίνῡ?~Xν perhaps shows that both νῠν and νῡν could be enclitic.—Position: in signf. I νῦν can occupy any position; in signf. II it prefers (like other enclitics, but also like{ἄν, δέ, γάρ}, etc.) the second place in the sentence, e.g. πρός νύν σε πατρός [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 468, compare “OC” 1333; ἀπό νύν με λείπετ᾽ ἤδη [prev. author] “Ph.” 1177 (Lyric poetry); μετά νυν δός 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 56 (Lyric poetry) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; νυ (always enclitic) precedes other enclitics and allows only δέ to precede.] (Cf. Sanskrit nú, n[umacracute], nūnám, O[[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+] nū 'now', etc.)