[I was,] for ἤμην . Also without the nu.[1] Aristophanes in Wealth: "the things I was prepared to hide".[2] Also used in the third person. [Note] that it also serves for ἤμην as the result of a Homeric resolution of vowels [ἔην ]: "So I am, if I ever was."[3]
Concerning the conjunction ἤ ["or, than"]. "Or" is disjunctive, or declarative, or subdisjunctive. It is disjunctive when it connects opposites, for example "day or night" or "young or old".[4] It is subdisjunctive when it connects different things and does not require a choice between them, for example "give me gold or silver or precious stones." It is declarative when, of two things put forth, one is preferred, for example "better to be a poor man on land than a rich man in a ship."[5] Also "I'd rather have a drop of good luck than a jug of brains."[6]