τάχʼ (tach)

τάχʼ is an Ancient Greek form of τάχα, meaning “quickly, soon; perhaps”. It is the adverb.

Found 282 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.116: οὔπω κηρὶ κακῇ πεπρωμένον· ἦ τάχʼ ἔμελλεν

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.81.1: τάχ’ ἄν τις θαρσοίη ὅτι τοῖς ὅπλοις αὐτῶν καὶ τῷ πλήθει ὑπερφέρομεν, ὥστε τὴν γῆν δῃοῦν ἐπιφοιτῶντες.

Lucian of Samosata, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit 28: … ἐφειστήκει ὁρῶν Μαλχίωνα τὸν Σύρον ἐν Καισαρείᾳ σκάρους παμμεγέθεις ἀξίους ὠνούμενον. εἰ δὲ μὴ νὺξ κατέλαβεν, τάχ' ἂν καὶ συνεδείπνει μετ' αὐτοῦ ἤδη τῶν σκάρων ἐσκευασμένων. ἅπερ εἰ μὴ ἐνεγέγραπτο ἐπιμελῶς τῇ ἱστορίᾳ, μεγάλα …

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.