τοιγάρ,
an inferential Particle, therefore, accordingly, well then, κέλεαί με.. μυθήσασθαι μῆνιν Ἀπόλλωνος.. · τοιγὰρ ἐγὼν ἐρέω [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.76, compare 10.427, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.254, 8.402, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 309, “Th.” 1038, “Pers.” 607, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 931 (_anapaest meter_), 994, “Aj.” 666, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; rare in Comedy texts [[(5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 516 (_anapaest meter_), 901, 902) and Prose (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.114, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ καρδίης” 10 (assuming variant))] Refs 5th c.BC+]; never in Attic dialect Prose.
__II strengthened by other Particles, τοιγαροῦν, Ionic dialect τοιγαρῶν, for that very reason, therefore, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.149, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 234e, 246b, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.9.9, +others, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.40, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1271b3, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also in Poets, as [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 490, “OT” 1519 (troch.), “Ph.” 341, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1098, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 τοιγάρτοι, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.3, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.38, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.108, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 82d, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; rare in Poets, [[ 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 145, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 654 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 643 (_anapaest meter_):— 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus always inserts a word between τοιγάρ] Refs 8th c.BC+] and τοι, τοιγὰρ ἐγώ τοι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.413, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.179, 214, +others] Refs 8th c.BC+] —These forms must begin the sentence, except in late Gr., where τοιγαροῦν may be postponed, as [[ 2nd c.AD: Cleomedes Astronomus 1.8, Wilcken “Chr.” 491.7 (2nd c.AD), 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “περὶ τῆς τάξεως τῶν ἰδίων βιβλίων” 2, Vett. Val. 356.3, “Sammelb.” 6222.12 (3rd c.AD), 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Caesares” 318d. (It is doubtful whether τοι- contains the _demonstrative_ stem το-.) ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]