LogeionPerseus analysis of αἰεί:
ἀεί (ever, always): epic (indeclform adverb)
LSJ entry
ἀεί
ἀεί,
Adv. A. ever, always,
Hom.,
etc.; with other specifications of time, ἐμμενὲς αἰεί Od. 21.69;
συνεχὲς αἰ. 9.74;
ἀ. καθʼ ἡμέραν, καθʼ ἡμέραν ἀ., ἀ. καὶ καθʼ ἡμέραν, ἀ. κατʼ ἐνιαυτόν, ἀ. διὰ βίου, etc., Pl. Phd. 75d,
etc.; ἀ. πανταχοῦ D. 21.197,
cf. Ar. Eq. 568;
διὰ παντὸς ἀ. Pax 397;
ἐνδελεχῶς ἀ. Men. 521;
δεῦρʼ ἀεί until now,
E. Or. 1663,
Pl. Lg. 811c;
αἰεί κοτε, ποτε from of old,
Hdt. 1.58,
Th. 6.82;
αἰ. δήποτε 1.13;
cf. εἰσαεί:—with the Art., ὁ ἀ. χρόνος eternity,
Hdt. 1.54,
Pl. Phd. 103e,
etc.; οἱ ἀ. ὄντες the immortals,
X. Cyr. 1.6.46,
etc.:—but ὁ αἰ. βασιλεύων the king for the time being,
Hdt. 2.98;
οἱ ἀ. δικάζοντες D. 21.223;
ὁ αἰ. ἐντὸς γιγνόμενος every one as he got inside, Th. 4.68;
τὸν ἀ. προστυχόντα D. 21.131;
τοῖσι τούτων αἰ. ἐκγόνοισι to their descendants for ever,
Hdt. 1.105,
cf. 3.83,
etc.; in A. Pr. 937,
θῶπτε τὸν κρατοῦντʼ ἀ., ἀεί is postponed metri gr.—Dialectic forms (cf. Hdn.Gr.1.497,
Et.Gud.z):