, Mosch. 4.40 ), neut.οὐδέν(declined and accentuated like εἷς, μία, ἕν ),not one, i.e.no one, none, used by Hom. , Hes. , and Pi. (who preferοὔτις) only in neut. nom. and acc.οὐδέν, exc. in the phrase τὸ ὃν μένος οὐδενὶ εἴκων
Il. 22.459
, al.;οὐδείςis found in B. Fr. 28 ; but all genders and cases are common in all other writers, Hdt. 1.32 , 33 , etc.: rare in pl.,no setof persons or things, And. 1.23 (dub. cj.), X. Lac. 3.1 ; πρὸς οὐδένας τῶν Ἑλλήνων
2. οὐ. ὅστις οὐ every one, Hdt. 3.72 , etc.;οὐδὲν ὅ τι οὐ every, Id. 5.97 ; this came to be regarded as one word, so thatοὐδείςpassed into the same case as ὅστις, οὐδένα ὅντινα οὐ κατέκλασε
II. naught, good for naught, ὦ νῦν μὲν οὐ. αὔριον δ' ὑπέρμεγας
Ar. Eq. 158
, cf. E. Fr. 187.5 ;τὸ μὲν [γένος ἀνδρῶν] οὐδέν
Pi. N. 6.3 : freq. in neut.,οὐδὲν εἰδώςknowingnaught, Thgn. 141 , E. Fr. 391 ;οὐκ ἄρ' ᾔστην οὐδὲν ἄλλο πλὴν δάκνεινknewnothingsave how to . . , Ar. Av. 19 ;οὐδὲν λέγεινto saynaught, v. λέγω (B) III. 6 ;τὸ οὐδ' οὐδένthe absolutenothing, Pl. Tht. 180a .
: in answers,nothing, never mind, no matter, E. Med. 64 , IT 781 , Ar. Nu. 694 ;οὐδέν γε not at all, Id. Av. 1360 , etc.;οὐδὲν μᾶλλον, οὐδὲν ἧσσον, οὐδὲν ὕστερος, v. μάλα
11.5 , ἥσσων
111
, ὕστερος
A.
I.
2. οὐδὲν ἄλλο ἤ, v. ἄλλος III. 2 .
B. REMARKS: the more emphatic and literal sense,not even one, i.e.none whatever, belongs to the full form,οὐδὲ εἷς, οὐδὲ μία, οὐδὲ ἕν, which is never elided, even in Com. (v. Ar. Ra. 927 , Lys. 1045 (lyr.), Pl. 138 , 1115 ), but freq. has a Particle inserted between, cf. οὐδέ
B.
— Zen. (in EM 639.17 ) and others wrongly assumeοὐδείςas a compd. not ofοὐδέandεἷς, but ofοὐandδείς(q. v.). (Laterοὐθείς, q. v.)
