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an adverbial acc. like δίκην, μάτην, χάριν, originally meaning ";back,"; return to a previous position, in later Greek came to be used rather in the sense of ";again,"; repetition of a previous action. Exx. are P Tebt I. 58.52 (B.C. III) πάλιν προσεντέλλομαί σοι προσεδρεῦσαι, ";I again bid you be in attendance"; (Edd.), P Fay 122.10 (c. A.D. 100) ἕως ἀπολαβὼν τὸ λοιπὸν τῆς τιμ [ῆ ]ς πάλιν σοι γράψω, ";until I get the remainder of the price and write to you again"; (Edd.), PSI IV. 299.14 (iii/A.D. ε ̣[ὔχομαι τ ]ῷ θεῷ ἕως οὗ ἄν με πάλιν πρὸς ὑμᾶς εὐοδώσῃ, ";I pray God until he again gives me a prosperous return to you,"; P Oxy XII. 1490.6 (late iii/A.D.) εἰ οὖν πάλιν δύνῃ ἐκπλέξαι παρὰ σεαυτ ̣ω ̣̑, τύχῃ τῇ ἀγαθῇ, ";if then you can again get him off by yourself (?), good luck to you"; (Edd.), and P Gen I. 53.20 (iv/A.D.) ἐγὼ πάλιν σὸς δοῦλος εἰμεὶ καὶ οὐκ ἀποσατατίσωμαί (= ήσομαί) σου ὡς πρῶτον, ";I am again thy slave, and shall not be absent from you as formerly.";

For a wider use of πάλιν we may cite P Oxy IV. 742.9 (B.C. 2) (= Witkowskia.2, p. 128) παράδος δέ τινι τῶν φίλων ἀριθμῶ αὐτάς, ἵνα πάλιν ϕ ̣[ί ]λ ̣ος ἡμεῖν παραδοῖ ἀσφ [αλῶς, ";deliver them (sc. bundles of reeds) carefully counted to one of our friends, that a friend may deliver them to me safely,"; ib. XIV. 1676.24 (iii/A.D.) χαίρω ὅτι καλῶ [ς ] ἔχεις μέν, κἀγὼ δὲ πάλι (see below) καταξύομαι μὴ ὁρῶν σε, ";I rejoice for your happiness, but still I am vexed at not seeing you"; (Edd.), and ib. 1775.9 (iv/A.D.) οὐχ ὤκνη ̣σ ̣α ̣ οὔτε πάλιν ἠμέλησα.

To meet the difficulty of Mark 15:13 where the first outcry of the mob is referred to, Souter (Lex. s.v.) suggests ";an unsuitable mistranslation of an Aramaic word of much wider signification, further, thereupon"; (cf. Wellhausen, Einleitung, p. 28 f.). But for this secondary meaning of πάλιν it is not necessary to go back to Aramaic, as Moffatt has pointed out (Exp. VIII. xx. p. 141), in view of such a passage as P Oxy XIV. 1676.20 (iii/A.D.) ἀλλὰ καὶ λυποῦμαι πάλιν ὅτι ἐκτός μου ε [ἶ, ";still I am sorry you are not beside me."; Similarly in Galatians 5:3 πάλιν is perhaps best rendered by ";further,"; the sequence being logical rather than temporal.

For the byform πάλι, as in John 1:35 W, and in MGr, Mayser (Gr. p. 241) can only cite from Ptolemaic times the fragment of an anthology, P Tebt I. 1 (c. B.C. 100), but it is common in post-Ptolemaic papyri and inscrr., e.g. P Flor III. 334.6 (ii/A.D.) πάλι τῆι σῆι σφραγῖδι ἀσφαλῶς κλείσας σφράγισον τὸ δαπανηθὲν ἀνάλωμα εἰς τοὺς θησαυρούς, P Oxy I. 119.7 (ii/iii A.D.) (= Selections, p. 103) οὔτε πάλι χαίρω σε λυ (= οι)πόν, ";I shall not greet you again henceforth,"; and the early Christian letter P Amh I. 3 (a)ii. 13 (between A.D. 264 and 282) εἰ δὲ ε [. . . .] ἄρ ̣τοις (l. ἄρτους ?) πάλι ̣ π ̣ε ̣πράσιν ̣, ";but if they have again sold loaves."; Further exx. will be found in Crönert, Mem. Herc. p. 140 n.3. It may be noted that the dictum ascribed to Phrynichus (ed. Lob. p. 284) : πάλι · οὕτω λέγουσιν οἱ νῦν ῥήτορες καὶ ποιηταί, δέον μετὰ τοῦ ν πάλιν, ὡς οἱ ἀρχαῖοι λέγουσιν, is set aside by Rutherford NP, p. 347 f.

 

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