[Meaning] here; in reference to the present.[1]
Also [sc. attested is] deu=ro a)ei/ ["hither ever"], meaning until the present.[2] It also means "come!"[3]
"Come hither now," meaning draw near, come close.[4]
And in Homer: "come hither."[5]
It is also said deuri/ in Aristophanes. "[Tell them] to come quickly hither to me and not to tarry; and if they do not come quickly, I myself, by Apollo, will send them down below the earth."[6]