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):

1. αἰεί, Ep., Ion., Poet., and Early Att. (cf. Marcellin. Vit. Thuc. 52); found (beside ἀεί) in Att. Inscrr. to 361 B.C.

2. ἀεί [ᾰ three times in Hom., ᾱ/ᾰ Att.] normal in Att. Inscrr. from 361 B.C.

3. αἰέν, Il. 1.290, al. (ἆεν is v.l. in Il. 11.827), Pi. N. 6.3, Sophr. 90, A. Pr. 428, Ag. 891, S. Aj. 682.

4. Dor. αἰές, Ar. Lys. 1266, BionFr. 1.1; also ἀές, Tab.Heracl. 1.134.

5. Aeol. αἶι( ν), ἄιν, Hdn.Gr.l.c.; cf.IG 9(2).461 (ἄϊν, Thess.), SIG 58 (Milet.), and v. ἀϊπάρθενος, ἀείδασμος.

6. αἰέ, Hdn.Gr.l.c.

7. ἀέ, Pi. P. 9.88, Pisand. 11 (ᾰἐ); cf. ἀέ-ναος.

8. Boeot. ἠί, Hdn. Gr.l.c.

9. Tarent. αἰή, ibid.

II. τὸ ἀ. eternity, τὸ ἀ. τοῦτο οὐκ αἰώνιόν ἐστιν ἀλλὰ χρονικόν Procl. Inst. 198. The statement of Harp. that ἀεί = ἕως in Att. is based on misinterpretation of such phrases as ἐς τόνδε αἰ. τὸν πόλεμον Th. 1.18. (αἰϝεί Epigr.Gr. 742, GDI 60.31 (Cypr.), IG 9(1).334.4 (Locr.), cf. Lat. aevum.)