# ἔπειτα
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* ἔπειθ’ (épeith’) — apocopic, before a rough breathing
* ἔπειτ’ (épeit’) — apocopic, before a smooth breathing
* ἔπειτεν (épeiten) — Ionic

### Etymology

From ἐπί (epí, “upon”) + εἶτα (eîta).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /é.peː.ta/ → /ˈe.pi.ta/ → /ˈe.pi.ta/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /é.peː.ta/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈe.pi.ta/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈe.pi.ta/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈe.pi.ta/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈe.pi.ta/

### Adverb

ἔπειτα • (épeita)
* (of mere sequence, without any notion of cause) thereupon, thereafter, then
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.48
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.169
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 15.140
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.551
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 171
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.214
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.783
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.527
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 10.297
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 8.378
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.106
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.497
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.55
** 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 18A
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.33
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.3.14
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.3.24
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 724
** 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 147C
** 411 BCE, Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 556
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 61
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 305
** (with the article) what follows
*** 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 611
*** 413 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 1265
*** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 672
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 116A
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Philebus 39E
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.5.9
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.64
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 67D
*** 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Parmenides 152B
** (like εἶτα, with a finite verb after a participle)
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 14.223
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 11.730
*** 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 267
*** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 29
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 82C
*** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 654
*** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 438
*** 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 496
*** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 761
*** 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 498
*** 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 29
*** 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 519E
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 319D
*** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 336B
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 310C
*** 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 624
*** 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 536
** (in apodoses, though never at the beginning of the clause, in Homer often strengthened)
** (after a temporal conjunction) then, thereafter
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 8.378
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.247
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 11.121
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.545
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.223
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.522
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.478
** (after a conditional conjunction) then, surely
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 7.360
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.453
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.290
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.394
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.243
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.547
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.392
* (of sequence in thought, i.e. consequence or inference) then, therefore
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 17.185
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 15.49
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.357
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.812
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 345
** (to begin a story)
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.354
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 9.116
** (in Attic often to introduce emphatic questions)
*** 388 BCE, Aristophanes, Plutus 827
*** 411 BCE, Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 188
*** 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 226
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.4.11
*** 431 BCE, Euripides, Medea 1398
*** 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 126
*** 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 963
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Symposium 4.2
*** 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 911
*** 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 1217
*** 425 BCE, Aristophanes, Lysistrata 985
*** 438 BCE, Euripides, Alcestis 822

#### Derived terms

* μετέπειτα (metépeita)

### Further reading

* “ἔπειτα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ἔπειτα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “ἔπειτα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* ἔπειτα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* ἔπειτα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* “ἔπειτα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G1899 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
* Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited. afterwards idem, page 17.anon idem, page 31.hereafter idem, page 397.hereupon idem, page 397.next idem, page 557.one idem, page 573.subsequently idem, page 832.then idem, page 865.thereafter idem, page 865.