μηδέ,
(μή, δέ) negative Particle (compare οὐδέ): as conjunction, and not (Epic dialect also, but not), nor, connecting two whole clauses, used with the same constructions as μή, μή τι σὺ ταῦτα.. διείρεο μηδὲ μετάλλα [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.550, etc.: without a _negative_ preceding, 4.302, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τεκνοῦσθαι, μηδ᾽ ἄπαιδα θνῄσκειν [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 754 (Lyric poetry), compare “Eu.” 714, “Supp.” 409; ὕδατος, μελίσσης, μηδὲ προσφέρειν μέθυ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 481, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.77. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 in μηδέ.. μηδέ.. the first μ. may belong to μηδέ A, e.g. [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.303f, or to μηδέ B, e.g. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 391c; μήτε.. μηδέ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 2.45, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 327d ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; but μήτε cannot follow μηδέ:—for μηδέ after οὐδέ, see at {οὐ} [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 11.3. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__B as adverb, joined with a single word or phrase, not even, not either, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.375, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.710, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; repeated emphatically, μηδ᾽ ὅντινα γαστέρι μήτηρ κοῦρον ἐόντα φέροι μηδ᾽ ὃς φύγοι let not the babe unborn —no let not even it escape, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.58; τὸ μήποτ᾽ αὖθις μηδ᾽ ἀναστῆναι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 569:] Refs 8th c.BC+] —for μηδέ τι see at {μήτις}.