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Perseus analysis of οὖν:

οὖν (certainly, in fact): indeclform (particle)

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οὖν 

οὖν, Ion. and Dor. ὦν (the latter in Pi. P. 3.82, al., but οὖν in Hom. (v. infr.), B. 18.29,37, Cerc. 4.18, al.), Adv.
1. really, φημὶ γὰρ οὖν κατανεῦσαι . . Κρονίωνα for I declare that Zeus did really promise . . , Il. 2.350, cf. Pl. Prt. 309b; τόφρα γὰρ οὖν ἑπόμεσθα . . , ὄφρʼ for we followed them up to the very point, where . . , Il. 11.754, cf. 15.232, Od. 2.123; εἰ δʼ οὖν τις ἀκτὶς ἡλίου νιν ἱστορεῖ . . ζῶντα A. Ag. 676, cf. 1042; ἐλέχθησαν λόγοι ἄπιστοι μὲν ἐνίοισι Ἑλλήνων, ἐλέχθησαν δʼ ὦν but they really were spoken, Hdt. 3.80, cf. 4.5, 6.82; Θηβαῖοι μὲν ταῦτα λέγουσι . . , Πλαταιῆς δʼ οὐχ ὁμολογοῦσι . . , ἐκ δʼ οὖν τῆς γῆς ἀνεχώρησαν at all events they did return, Th. 2.5, cf. 1.63, Pl. Prt. 315e; σωτηρίαν λεπτὴν μὲν . . , μόνην δʼ οὖν Id. Lg. 699b; so δʼ οὖν after a parenthesis; εἰ δή τις ὑμῶν οὕτως ἔχει,—οὐκ ἀξιῶ μὲν γὰρ ἔγωγε,—εἰ δʼ οὖν but if he is so, Id. Ap. 34d, cf. Hdt. 6.76, Th. 1.3; so ἀλλʼ οὖν . . γε but at all events, S. Ant. 84, Ph. 1305; ἔμπης οὖν ἐπιμεῖναι ἐς αὔριον to stay nevertheless at least till to-morrow, Od. 11.351; οὖν concessive, I grant you, τάχʼ οὖν τις ἄκων ἔσχε S. Ph. 305: in apodosi after εἰ or ἐάν, εἰ καὶ σμικρά, ἀλλʼ ὦν ἴση γε ἡ χάρις . . Hdt. 3.140, cf.9.48, E. Ph. 498, Pl. Phd. 91b, etc.: after ἐπεί and ὡς, ἀλλʼ ἐπεὶ οὖν τὸ πρῶτον ἀνέκραγον but now that I have (emphat.) once spoken up, Od. 14.467, cf. 17.226, Il. 18.333; Τληπόλεμος δʼ, ἐπεὶ οὖν τράφʼ ἐνὶ μεγάρῳ εὐπήκτῳ, αὐτίκα . . κατέκτα when once, i.e. as soon as, he had grown up, 2.661, cf. 15.363, 16.394, al.; νεβροί, αἵ τʼ ἐπεὶ οὖν ἔκαμον . . ἑστᾶσʼ which, as soon as they are tired, stand still, 4.244; to indicate that something foreshadowed has actually occurred, ἀγορήνδε καλέσσατο λαὸν Ἀχιλλεύς . . , οἱ δʼ ἐπεὶ οὖν ἤγερθεν 1.57, cf. 3.340, al.: sts. οὖν after ἐπεί or ὡς has either no force or approaches signf. II or III, οἱ δʼ ἐπεὶ οὖν παύσαντο πόνου Od. 16.478, cf. 19.213, 251, al.; τὸν δʼ ὡς οὖν ἐνόησε Il. 3.21, al.; οὔτʼ οὖν . . , οὔτε . . or οὔτε . . , οὔτʼ οὖν . . both = neither . . nor, but preferred according as the first or second clause is to be marked by emphasis, cf. 17.20, Od. 2.200, Hdt. 9.26, with Od. 11.198sq., S. OT 90, 271, etc.; so εἰ . . , εἴτʼ οὖν . . if . . , or if . . , E. Alc. 140; εἴτʼ οὖν, εἴτε μὴ γενήσεται whether it shall be so, or no, Id. Heracl. 149, cf. A. Ag. 491, S. El. 560; ξεῖνος αἴτʼ ὦν ἀστός, i.e. αἴτε ξ. αἴτʼ ὦν ἀ., Pi. P. 4.78; and doubled, εἴτʼ οὖν ἀληθὲς εἴτʼ οὖν ψεῦδος Pl. Ap. 34e, cf. A. Ch. 683: so also in parenth. Relat. clauses, ἢ σῖγʼ, ἀτίμως, ὥσπερ οὖν ἀπώλετο πατήρ even as, just as, ib.96, cf. 888, E. Hipp. 1307 (v.l.); εἰ δʼ ἔστιν, ὥσπερ οὖν ἔστι, θεός if he is, as he in fact is, a god, Pl. Phdr. 242e; οὗτος μὲν οἴεταί τι εἰδέναι οὐκ εἰδώς, ἐγὼ δέ, ὥσπερ οὖν οὐκ οἶδα, οὐδὲ οἴομαι Id. Ap. 21d: for γὰρ οὖν, v. γάρ A. II.5; for μὲν οὖν, v. μέν B. II.2.