Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πάλι ‎(páli)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /pálin/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pálin/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pálin/

Adverb

πάλιν • ‎(pálin)

1. (of place) back, backwards
   • Herodotus, Histories 5.72
   • Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 854
   • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 601
   • Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 962
   • Euripides, Medea 412
   • Homer, Iliad 1.116
   • Andocides, Collected Works 22.34
   • Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1021
   • Homer, Iliad 18.138
   • Homer, Odyssey 13.125
   • Homer, Iliad 18.280
   • Homer, Odyssey 11.149
   • Hesiod, Theogony 181
   • Sophocles, Electra 53
   • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 601
   • Aristophanes, Lysistrata 792
   • Aristophanes, The Frogs 1486
   • Plato, Protagoras 318.E
   • Euripides, Orestes 125
   1. (with a notion of contradiction)
      • Homer, Iliad 9.56
      • Homer, Iliad 4.357
      • Homer, Odyssey 13.254
      • Homer, Odyssey 16.456
      • Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 1040
      • Plato, Gorgias 482.D
      • Plato, Gorgias 612.D
      • Plato, Gorgias 507.B
      • Pindar, Olympian Ode 11
      • Euripides, Herakles 778
2. (of time) again, once more, anew
   • Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1166
   • Aristophanes, Peace 997
   • Strabo, Geography 787
   • Claudius Aelianus, Various History 1.4
   • Homer, Iliad 2.276
   • Homer, Odyssey 16.456
3. again, in turn, doubly
   • Sophocles, Electra 731

References

• πάλιν in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πάλιν in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πάλιν in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «πάλιν» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «πάλιν» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• πάλιν in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3825”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • again idem, page 17.
  • back idem, page 57.