Ἔα δή

Notes

1. Same entry in other lexica. The first element in the headword phrase is an "exclamation of surprise" (so the scholia to (?)Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 114, where a)= a)= e)/a e)/a occurs), reiterated in LSJ s.v., rather than the imperative of e)a/w 'allow' (epsilon 1).
   For the history and use of this exclamation see E. Fraenkel's long and important note in his edition of Aeschylus, Agamemnon (on lines 1256f.: vol. 3.580 n.4) and the grammarian Schwyzer in KZ 60 (1933) 144 ff. It appears no longer to imply the willingness to allow something to go ahead found in the usual translation "OK then".