ἄρδην,
adverb contraction for ἀέρδην, (ἀείρω) lifted up on high, of a vase carried on the head, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 430; φέρειν ἄ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 608; πηδῶντος ἄ. Ἔκτορος τάφρων ὕπερ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1279. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II utterly, wholly, εἰς Τάρταρον ἄ. ῥίψειε δέμας[[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1051, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 887; πᾶσαν ἄ. πόλιν ἀπολλύναι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 421a; ἄ. διαφθείρεσθαι [prev. author] “Lg.” 677c; Φωκέων ἄ. ὄλεθρος 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.141; πεπτωκὸς ἄ. πολίτευμα 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.35.5] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὄμνυμι πάντας ἄ. τοὺς θεούς all together, all at once, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 274, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.1.12; later εἰς ἄ., πόλιν ἐξελεῖν 3rd c.AD: Heliodorus Scriptor Eroticus 9.2.] Refs 5th c.BC+]