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δʼ (d)

δʼ is an Ancient Greek form of δέ, meaning “but, and (postpositive)”. It is the particle.

Found 68,960 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.8: δηρὸν δʼ οὐ μετέπειτα τεὴν κατὰ βάξιν Ἰήσων

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.13.3: φαίνεται δὲ καὶ Σαμίοις Ἀμεινοκλῆς Κορίνθιος ναυπηγὸς ναῦς ποιήσας τέσσαρας· ἔτη δ᾽ ἐστὶ μάλιστα τριακόσια ἐς τὴν τελευτὴν τοῦδε τοῦ πολέμου ὅτε Ἀμεινοκλῆς Σαμίοις ἦλθεν.

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 4.1.5: … α′. Τεχνῶν ἔλεγχος α′. Ὑπομνηματικοὶ διάλογοι. Τεχνικὸν α′. Διάλογοι τῶν περὶ τὴν πραγματείαν ὁμοίων α′ β′ γ′ δ′ ε′ ς′ ζ′ η θ′ ι′. Διαιρέσεις καὶ πρὸς τὰ ὅμοια ὑποθέσεις. Περὶ γενῶν καὶ εἰδῶν παραδειγμάτων. Πρὸς τὸν Ἀμάρτ …

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.