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Thucydides
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Can anyone succintly describe the precise force of this particle?

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Post by chad »

succintly
= enclitic νυν (Willcock). see lsj II: :)

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/pt ... 3D%2371309

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Smyth can (#2928):
νύ (enclitic; Epic and Cyprian), a still weaker form of νῦν, and less emphatic than δή. It is common in questions and appeals; less freqent in statements; as τίς νυ; who now? Also after other particles, as καί νύ κε, ἦ ῥά νυ.

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