ἐν δέ

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἐν δ’ (en d’) — apocopic, before a vowel

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /en dé/ → /en ðe/ → /en ðe/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /en dé/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /en de/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /en ðe/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /en ðe/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /en ðe/

Adverb

ἐν δέ • (en dé)

1. and therein
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.361
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 13.244
2. and among them
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.588
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.43
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.172
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.176
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.39
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.95
3. (not in Attic prose) and besides, moreover
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 5.260–261:^[1]

     ἐν δ’ ὑπέρας τε κάλους τε πόδας τ’ ἐνέδησεν ἐν αὐτῇ,
     μοχλοῖσιν δ’ ἄρα τήν γε κατείρυσεν εἰς ἅλα δῖαν.

     en d’ hupéras te kálous te pódas t’ enédēsen en autêi,
     mokhloîsin d’ ára tḗn ge kateírusen eis hála dîan.

     • 1919 translation by Augustus Taber Murray^[2]

       And he made fast in the raft braces and halyards and sheets,
       and then with levers forced it down into the bright sea.

   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 675
   • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 181, (lyrical)

Further reading

• “ἐν · C. without case, as adverb, in the phrase ἐν δέ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press