Babrius, no. 3,

Here are the first three lines of no. 3. I believe I have most of this worked out.

But, I can’t find a meaning for this word in the second line: χαἰ.

Αἶγάς ποτ’ αἰγοβοσκὸς ἀνεκάλει χρῄζων
ἐπὶ σηκὸν ἄξειν· χαἰ μὲν ἦλθον, αἳ δ’ οὔπω
μιῆς δ’ ἀπειθοῦς ἐν φάραγγι τρωγούσης. . . .

For a guess I speculated that χαἰ might be a form of αἳ.

In that case, χαἰ μὲν ἦλθον, αἳ δ’ οὔπω might mean:

some came, but others [did] not

Crasis of καὶ and αἱ

Many thanks to bedwere!