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δῆθʼ (deth)

δῆθʼ is an Ancient Greek form of δῆτα, meaning “indeed, certainly”. It is the adverb.

It can also be a form of δηθά, “for a long time”.

Found 45 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.1243: καί τε Καλαύρειαν μετὰ δῆθʼ ἅμα νίσσεται ἵπποις,

Euripides, Alcestis 389: οὐ δῆθ’ ἑκοῦσά γʼ, ἀλλὰ χαίρετʼ, ὦ τέκνα.

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.