[Particle] to express a wish. And by extension [it becomes] eithe.[1]
The Pisidian [writes]: "would that Persia's boldness had been quenched."[2]
*ei)/: eu)ktiko/n. kai\ kat' e)pe/ktasin ei)/qe. *pisi/dhs: ei)\ ga\r a)\n to\ *persi/dos e)/sbesto qra/sos.
LSJ entry at web address 1; cf.
epsiloniota 15 and
alphaiota 19.
[1] Similarly in other lexica.
[2] George of
Pisidia,
Heraclias 3 fr. 33. (Adler's addenda notes the attempts of several scholars to make it more metrically regular.)
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