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ἐτήτυ^μ-ος , ον, poet. redupl. for ἔτυμος,
A.true, οὐκ ἔσθ᾽ ὅδε μῦθος ἐ. Od.23.62; “ἐ. ἄγγελος ἐλθών” Il.22.438; “ἐτήτυμα μυθησαίμην” Hes.Op.10; τοῦτ᾽ ἀγόρευσον ἐτήτυμον tell me this true, Od.1.174; τοῦτ᾽ ἐ.; c. inf., is this true, that . . ? A.Pers.737 (troch.); “εἰ λέγεις ἐτήτυμα” S.Ph.1290; τὸ δ᾽ ἐ. but the truth is . . , Ar.Pax119.
2. of persons, truthful, οὐ ψευδόμαντις . . , ἀλλ᾽ ἐ. E.Or.1667; “ἐ. στόμα” Id.IT1085.
3. genuine, real, κείνῳ δ᾽ οὐκέτι νόστος ἐ. for him there remains no true, real return, Od.3.241; ἀλάθεια, κλέος, Pi.O.10(11).54, N.7.63; “ἐ. Διὸς κόρα” A.Ch.948; “παῖς ἐ. γεγώς” S.Tr.1064; “χρυσός” Theoc.12.37: in late Prose, Them. Or.22.279d.
II. as Adv., in neut. ἐτήτυμον, truly, really, Od.4.157, Il.13.111, 18.128, Archil.62 : regul. Adv. -μως A.Ag.167 (lyr.), 682 (lyr.); ὡς ἐ. S.El.1452.
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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