πάλαι [ᾰ],
adverb long ago, π. οὔ τι νέον γε [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.527; π. κοὐ νεωστί 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1049; π. πολλὰ ἤδη ἔτη 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 18b ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; π. ποτέ once upon a time, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1002, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 110a: frequently with ] Refs 5th c.BC+]present of an act lasting to the present, ὁρῶ.. π. I have long seen, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 5 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἰχνεύω π.[[ [prev. work] 20, compare “Ph.” 589, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Meno” 91a, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 257, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; but, π. ποτ᾽ ὄντες ye who were long ago, [[ [prev. author] “V.” 1060 ] Refs]: also with perfect, τέθνηχ᾽ ὑμῖν π. [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1030, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 998, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 556: with ] Refs 5th c.BC+]imperfect of an act lasting to a past time, ἔχεν π. had long been holding it, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.871, compare 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 11; ἔχεις π. ὧν ἐπεθύμεις 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 10.17: with _Article_, τὸ π. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.5, 7.74, 95, 142, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.5, etc.; ἀπὸ π. “BGU” 1036.24 (2nd c.AD). ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 like an adjective with Article and Noun, οἱ π. φῶτες men of old, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 2.1; Κάδμου τοῦ π. νέα τροφή 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1; τοῦ πρόσθε Κάδμου τοῦ π. τ᾽ Ἀγήνορος [prev. work] 268 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ καινὰ τοῖς π. τεκμαίρεται[[ [prev. work] 916, compare “Tr.” 1165, “El.” 1490, etc.; τὰ π. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.276 (nisi to be read παλαί᾽)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; οἱ π. the ancients, opposed to οἱ νῦν, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1069a29. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]