οὖν really, at all events, used like γοῦν to dismiss a perplexing subject, οὔτʼ οὖν ἀγγελίῃς ἔτι πείθομαι, οὔτε θεοπροπίης ἐμπάζομαι Od.; ἐλέχθησαν λόγοι ἄπιστοι μὲν ἐνίοισι Ἑλλήνων, ἐλέχθησαν δʼ ὦν but they really were spoken, Hdt.; εἴτʼ οὖν, εἴτε μὴ γενήσεται whether it shall be really so, or no, Eur.; εἴτʼ οὖν ἀληθὲς εἴτʼ οὖν ψεῦδος Plat.; εἰ δʼ ἔστιν, ὥσπερ οὖν ἔστι, θεός if he is, as he surely is, a god, Plat. added to indef. Pronouns and Advs., like Lat. cunque, ὅστις whoever, ὁστισοῦν whosoever; ὅπως how, ὁπωσοῦν howsoever; ἄλλος ὁστισοὖν another, be he who he may; so, ὁποιοσοῦν, ὁποσοσοῦν, ὁπωσοῦν, ὁποθενοῦν, etc. to continue a narrative, οἱ δʼ ἐπεὶ οὖν ἤγερθεν so when they were assembled, Il., etc.:—also to resume after an apodosis, I say, Hdt., etc.; Hdt. inserts it between the prep. and its Verb, ἐπεὰν δὲ ταῦτα ποιήσωσι, ἀπʼ ὦν ἔδωκαν. in Inferences, then, therefore, Lat. igitur, Hdt., etc.; so, δὴ οὖν, οὖν δή Plat.