The corpus record

τίη

tie

why? wherefore?

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Where it lives

Ecclesiazusae 2 · 2.62/10k
Peace 2 · 2.51/10k
Knights 2 · 2.25/10k
Thesmophoriazusae 1 · 1.42/10k
Frogs 1 · 1.1/10k
Wasps 1 · 1.03/10k
Odyssey 5 · 0.58/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

τίη · tiē — LSJ

why? wherefore?, why so, tell me?

why? wherefore? Il. 1.365, 6.145, al., Hes. Th. 35, and Att. Comedy: folld. by a Particle, τίη δὲ . .; Il. 6.55, 15.244, Od. 16.421, al.; τίη δὴ . .; Il. 21.436; doubled, τιὴ τί δή; standing alone, why so, tell me? Ar. V. 1155, Pax 1018, Th. 84. (The oxyt. τιή is called Att. by Eust. 118.36, cf. 45.4, but was unknown to A.D. and is prob. a fiction; τίη and τιὴ are dub. ll. in Ar. Ach. 826; cf. ἦ I.2, ὁτιή.)

In the wild

τιή · tiē Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 2 (DIORISIS sentence 907)
τιή · tiē Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae (DIORISIS sentence 646)
τιὴ · tiē Aristophanes, Frogs 1473
τιή · tiē Aristophanes, Knights (DIORISIS sentence 119)
τιή · tiē Aristophanes, Knights (DIORISIS sentence 535)
τιή · tiē Aristophanes, Peace (DIORISIS sentence 643)

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Where it came from

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