STEP Liddell–Scott–Jones: οὔτε

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οὔτε,

adverb, (οὐ, τε) joining negative clauses, as τε joins positive, but rare in the simple sense and not, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.265 (variant), 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.155 (variant)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; οὔτε γὰρ ἐκείνους διδόναι, Latin neque enim, [[ [prev. author] 1.3 (probably _falsa lectio_ for{οὐδὲ})] Refs]; and occasionally in later writers, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physica” 208a8, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Par.” 27, 53, etc. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]

__II mostly repeated, οὔτε.., οὔτε.. neither.., nor.., Latin neque.., neque.., [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, etc.— 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus frequently joins another Particle with the first or second οὔτε] Refs 8th c.BC+], as οὔτ᾽ ἂρ.., οὔτε..; οὔτ᾽ ἂρ.., οὔτ᾽ ἂρ..; οὔτ᾽ ἄρ τε.., οὔτ᾽ ἄρα.. [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.89; οὔτ᾽ οὖν, see at {οὖν} 1; οὔτε.. οὖν.., οὔτ᾽ ἄρα.. 20.7 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; οὔτ᾽ ἄρ.., οὔτε τι.., or οὔτε τι.., οὔτε..,[[ 1.115, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.202 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; so too οὔτε.., οὔτε μὴν.. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.3.12; οὔτε.., οὔτ᾽ αὖ.., see below 3. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]

__II.2 frequently used to divide up a general negation into two or more parts, ὡς δ᾽ ἐν ὀνείρῳ οὐ δύναται φεύγοντα διώκειν, οὔτ᾽ ἂρ ὁ τὸν δύναται ὑποφεύγειν οὔθ᾽ ὁ διώκειν [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.200; thrice repeated, οὔ μοι Τρώων.. μέλει ἄλγος.., οὔτ᾽ αὐτῆς Ἑκάβης οὔτε Πριάμοιο ἄνακτος οὔτε κασιγνήτων 6.450; οὐκ ἔπειθεν οὔτε τοὺς στρατηγοὺς οὔτε τοὺς στρατιώτας 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.4 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: without a negative preceding, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.490, 2.202, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]

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__II.3 within one of the two clauses distinguished by οὔτε a subordinate part may be introduced by οὐδέ, οὔτε γὰρ ἐκ σκίλλης ῥόδα φύεται οὐδ᾽ ὑάκινθος (οὐθ᾽ codices), οὐ δέ ποτ᾽ ἐκ δούλης τέκνον ἐλευθέριον [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 537; οὔτε.. ἀπέφηνεν οὐδὲ παρέσχηται μάρτυρας, οὔτ᾽ αὖ τὸν ἀριθμὸν.. ἐπανέφερεν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 27.49: sometimes after several clauses distinguished by οὔτε the last is introduced emphatic by οὐδέ, οὔτε φάρμακα οὔτε καύσεις οὔτε τομαὶ οὐδ᾽ αὖ ἐπῳδαί] Refs 6th c.BC+] nor yet incantations, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 426b, compare 499b (so μηδέ] Refs 5th c.BC+] after clauses with μήτε, μήτε παιδεία μήτε δικαστήρια μήτε νόμοι μηδὲ ἀνάγκη μηδεμία [[ [prev. author] “Prt.” 327d)] Refs]; so οὐδέ (μηδέ) may sometimes follow a single οὔτε (μήτε), οὐδέ ποτέ σφιν οὔτε τι πημανθῆναι ἔπι δέος, οὐδ᾽ ἀπολέσθαι neither to suffer misery, nor yet to die, see reading in [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.563, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 8.83, “I.” 2.44, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1139, 1141 (assuming variant), 1297 (conjecture), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 19d: in many of these places, however, the readings vary, and editors have altered οὐδέ into οὔτε] Refs 8th c.BC+]; but this cannot be done in some cases, as οὔτ᾽ ἂν ὑπό γε ἑνὸς.. πάθοι, ἴσως δ᾽ οὐδὲ ὑπὸ πλεόνων [[ [prev. author] “La.” 182b: so when οὔτε is followed by οὐδὲ μέν, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.207 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; by οὐδὲ μήν, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.5.27 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐδ᾽ αὖ, see above—But οὔτε (μήτε) cannot be used simply answering to οὐδέ (μηδέ), see at {μηδέ} [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 2. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]