ἐξαπῐν-ης,
Doric dialect and Aeolic dialect -ας, ={ἐξαίφνης}, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.325, 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 27, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.273, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.74, 87, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης ὀξέων” 28, 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “De rerum natura - Wien. Stud.” 14.8 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; never in Trag., sometimes in Attic dialect, as [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 336, 339, 815, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.50, 4th c.BC(?): Nicolaus Comicus 1.6:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —with a substantive, ἔαρ ἐξαπίνας sudden spring, [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 9.34. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]