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αὖ , Adv. of repeated action,
A.again, anew, afresh, once more, Il.1.540, etc.: freq. after numerals, δεύτερον αὖ, τρίτον αὖ, etc., Hom.; “τὸν δὲ πέμπτον αὖ λέγω” A.Th.526, cf. Ch. 1066 (lyr.); in a question, expressing impatience, τίς δὴ αὖ τοι . . ; Il.1.540.
II. generally, again, i.e. further, moreover, ib.2.493, etc.; “καὶ ἔτι γε αὖ” Pl.Tht. 192b.
2. on the other hand, following δέ, τούτῳ μὲν . . τούτῳ δ᾽ αὖ . . Il.4.417; also, in turn, οἳ δ᾽ ἄρα . . Ἠλίδα δῖαν ἔναιον . . τῶν αὖ τέσσαρες ἀρχοὶ ἔσαν ib.2.618; “ἥξει γὰρ ἄλλος αὖ τιμάορος” A.Ag.1280: hence = δέ, even when μέν precedes, Il.11.109, Od.4.211; freq. joined with “δέ, ὃν δ᾽ αὖ δήμου τ᾽ ἄνδρα ἴδοι” Il.2.198; “ὦ πολλὰ μὲν τάλαινα πολλὰ δ᾽ αὖ σοφή” A.Ag.1295, cf. Eu.954 (lyr.); “ὁ μὲν ἥμαρτε ὁ δ᾽ αὖ . . κατειργάσατο” X.Cyr.4.6.4; “οὐκ . . οὐδ᾽ αὖ” S.OT1373, El.911, cf. Pl.Tht.160b: with τε, X.Cyr.1.1.1, Pl.Prt.326a, etc.
III. in pleon. phrases, esp. in Trag. (v. αὖθις, ἔμπαλιν, πάλιν）“, μάλ᾽ αὖ” A.Eu.254, S.El.1410.
IV. on the contrary, “ἆρ᾽ ὀρθῶς . . ἢ αὖ;” Pl.R.468a.
V. of Place, backward, only in the incorrect orthography αὖ ἔρυσαν, cf. αὐερύω.—Not placed first in a sentence. [α^υ before a vowel, Pl.Com.153.3, Archestr. ap. Ath.6.300e (both hex.).] (Cf. αὐτάρ, αὖτε, αὖτις, Lat. aut.）
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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