Ἦ

[I was,] for h)/mhn. Also without the nu.¹ Aristophanes in Wealth: "the things I was prepared to hide".² Also used in the third person. But it also serves for h)/mhn as the result of a Homeric resolution of vowels [e)/hn]: "so I am, if I ever was."³
Concerning the conjunction h)/ ['or, than']. 'Or' is disjunctive, or declarative, or subdisjunctive. It is disjunctive when it connects opposites, for example day or night or "young or old".⁴ It is subdisjunctive when it connects different things and does not require a choice between them, for example 'give me gold or silver or precious stones'. It is declarative when, of two things put forth, one is preferred, for example "better to be a poor man on land than a rich man in a ship".⁵ Also, "I'd rather [have] a drop of good luck than a jug of brains".⁶