τέ

τέ (cf. que): enclitic conj., and; correl., τέ.. τέ (both.. and), also τέ.. καί, and with ἠδέ. τέ has some uses in Homer of which only traces remain in the later language. Their exact force cannot always be discerned, and the particle itself remams untranslatable. It attaches itself esp. to rel. words (seemingly as if they needed a connective), ὅς τέ, οἷός τε, ὅσος τε, ἔνθα τε, ἵνα τε, ἐπεί τε, ὥς τε, etc.; thus in Att. (with special meanings), οἷός τε, ὥστε. So τίς τε (τὶς), ἄλλα τε, γάρ τε, μέν τε, δέ τε, ἀτάρ τε, οὐδέ τε. In all these cases with or without a corresponding τέ in the connected clause, Il. 1.81, Il. 19.164. Many Latin words may be compared (for form, not necessarily for sense) with these combinations of τέ, namque, atque, quisque, etc.