A.“ἰθέα” Hdt.2.17, Eus.Mynd.63 (but ἰθείης, ῃ, αν are prob. in oblique cases)<*> Comp. ἰθύντερος Hdn.Gr.2.927: Sup. ἰθύντατος or -ύτατος (v. infr.):—Ion. and Ep. form of Att. εὐθύς:
1. straight, used by Hom. in this sense only in Adv. ἰθύς (infr. 11); ἰθείῃ τέχνῃ straightway, forthwith, Hdt.9.57; “ἰθέα ὁδός” Id.2.17; ἰθεῖαν (sc. ὁδόν) straight on, Id.7.193; ἐκ τῆς ἰθείης outright, openly, Id.2.161, al.; “ἰ. ἀτραπός” Nic.Th.265, cf. AP10.3; “ἰθύντατον ἴχνος” D.P.651; “γραφίδες ἰθύταται” AP6.63 (Damoch.); ἰθύτατον ὄρος steepest, App.Hisp.1.
2. in moral sense, straight-forward, just, εἰ δ᾽ ἄγ᾽ ἐγὼν αὐτὸς δικάσω, . . ἰθεῖα γὰρ ἔσται [ἡ δίκη] Il.23.580; “ἰθείῃσι δίκῃσιν” h.Cer.152, Hes.Th.86, cf.Op.36; opp. σκολιαὶ δίκαι, ib.224: in Sup. Adv., δίκην ἰθύντατα εἰπεῖν to give judgement the most fairly, Il. 18.508; later “οὔποτε δουλείη κεφαλὴ ἰθεῖα πέφυκεν” Thgn.535; “πρήξιες ἰθύτεραι” Id.1026; “Δίκα ἰθεῖα” B.14.54; “ἰθύς τε καὶ δίκαιος” Hdt.1.96; λόγος ἰ ib.118.
II. ἰθύς, or less freq. ἰθύ, as Adv., straight at, mostly c. gen. objecti, “βῆ ῥ᾽ ἰθὺς Διομήδεος” Il.5.849, cf. 16.584; ἰθὺς κίεν οἴκου went straight towards the dwelling, 24.471, cf. Od.15.511; “ἰθὺ βέλος πέτετ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ἀπολήγει” Il.20.99; “ἔπλεε ἰθὺ τοῦ Ἴστρου” Hdt.4.89; “ἰθὺ τῆς ἀρχῆς τῆς Τομύριος” 1.207, cf. 6.95, al.; “ἰθὺ βαδίζειν” Semus 20; “ἰθὺς πρὸς τεῖχος ἔκιον” Il.12.137; “ἰθὺς ἐπὶ Θεσσαλίης” Hdt.5.64.
2. abs., ἰθὺς φρονέων resolving to go straight on, Il.12.124, cf. 13.135; “ἰθὺς μεμαώς” 11.95, etc.; of a bird's flight, SIG1167.7 (Ephesus, vi B.C.); ἰθὺς μαχέσασθαι to fight face to face, Il.17.168; “μένος χειρῶν ἰθὺς φέρον” 5.506; also τέτραπτο πρὸς ἰθύ οἱ (v.l. πρὸς ἰθύν, cf. sq.) he fronted him face to face, 14.403; κατ᾽ ἰθὺ γούνασιν opposite, i.e. vertically below, the knees, Hp.Off.3; of Time, straightway, Hdt.3.58.
