τάχᾰ,
adverb, (τᾰχύς) quickly, presently, forthwith, frequently in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, who, like 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus (“O.” 2.29, 4.83, +others) and 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus (5.89)] Refs 8th c.BC+], uses it only of time, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.205, 2.193, +others] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἦ τ. soon i'faith, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.73, 338 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of past time, τ. δ᾽ Ἕκτορος ἄγχι γένοντο [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.117: also in Trag.and (more rarely)] Refs 8th c.BC+] Attic dialectProse and Comedy texts, with future, τάχ᾽ εἴσομαι [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 261, compare “Ag.” 489, 1649, “Ch.” 305, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 84, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 527, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 247d, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔοικα θεσπιῳδήσειν τ. [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1161 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; πέμψον πρὸς ἐμὲ τ. [[ “Sammelb.” 7356.25 (2nd c.AD)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; in this sense not found in [[ LXX or in Papyri (except [same place])] Refs]; τάχα ἐπειδάν, ={ἐπειδὰν τάχιστα}, as soon as, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 242a. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II perhaps, to express any contingency from a probability to bare possibility, δὶς μὲν γὰρ καὶ τρὶς τ. τεύξεαι [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 401; τ. οὐδὲ τεθέασθε τυραννουμένην πόλιν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 711a, compare “Hp. Ma.” 303b, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.2.17, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 27.61, 2nd c.BC: Bion Bucolicus “fragment” 4.8, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 16.685,690: more frequently τάχ᾽ ἄν] Refs 8th c.BC+], probably, perhaps, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.70, +others] Refs 5th c.BC+], frequently in Trag. and Attic dialect; mostly with optative, as [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus [same place], 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 314, “Eu.” 512 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 139, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.81, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; rarely with aorist indicative, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 256c, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 16.596] Refs 5th c.BC+]; with imperfect indicative, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 36.55 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; with participle, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 523, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; with infinitive, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Icar.” 10 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; τάχ᾽ ἄν alone, in answers, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 255c, “R.” 369a, etc.: strengthened, τάχα.. ἴσως 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 718 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἴσως τ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.1.24; τ. τοίνυν ἴσως 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.191; τάχ᾽ ἂν ἴσως 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 264c; τάχ᾽ ἴσως ἄν [prev. author] “Sph.” 247d; ἴσως τάχ᾽ ἄν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 691, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.34, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 38e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀμφισβητοῦντες προστιθέασιν ἀεὶ τὸ ἴσως καὶ τ. [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1389b19 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; in this sense only twice in [[ LXX (LXX.Wis.13.6, 14.19). ] LXX]