μήποτε: Difference between revisions

|Definition=or μή ποτε, Ion. μή κοτε (v. infr. ''ΙΙ''): <span class="sense"><span class="bld">I</span> as Adv. [[never]], [[on no account]], after [[ὡς]], <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>205</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Eu.</span>882</span>; after [[εἰ]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ch.</span>182</span>, etc.: c. inf., <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Eu.</span>977</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Supp.</span>617</span>; esp. in oaths, [[never]], ὀμοῦμαι, μή ποτε τῆς εὐνῆς ἐπιβήμεναι <span class="bibl">Il.9.133</span>, <span class="bibl">275</span>; <b class="b3">ἐπεκέκλετ' Ἐρινῦς, μή ποτε… ἐφέσσεσθαι</b> ib.<span class="bibl">455</span>; in aposiopesis, <b class="b3">ἢ μήπορ' ἆρ'</b>… <span class="bibl">Men.<span class="title">Sam.</span>97</span>: in orat. obliq., <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Op.</span>86</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> in prohibition or warning, with aor. subj., μή ποτε καὶ σὺ… ὀλέσσῃς <span class="bibl">Od.19.81</span>, etc.: with inf. for imper., <span class="bibl">11.441</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> in later Gr., [[perhaps]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">EN</span>1172a33</span>, <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Ge.</span>24.5</span>, Aristeas <span class="bibl">15</span>, <span class="bibl">Ph.1.13</span>, <span class="bibl">Arr.<span class="title">Epict.</span>3.22.80</span>, Plu.2.106d, <span class="bibl">A.D.<span class="title">Pron.</span>18.4</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> as Conj., [[lest ever]], αἰσχυνόμενοι φάτιν ἀνδρῶν... μή ποτέ τις εἴπῃσι <span class="bibl">Od.21.324</span>, al.; οὐδαμὰ ἐλπίσας μή κοτε ἄρα… ἐλάσῃ <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.77</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">8.53</span>.</span>

|sltr=[[μήποτε]] (v. μή, ποτε.) c. impv., <br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b> [[never]] Παιὰν δὲ [[μήποτε]] λείποι Πα. 2. 36, 72, 108.

|txtha=(from μή and [[πότε]]) (μή [[πότε]] ([[separately]]) L WH ([[except]] Tr ([[except]] [[οὔποτε]] as μή does from οὐ; (from [[Homer]] [[down]]). Accordingly it is:<br /><b class="num">1.</b> a [[particle]] of Negation; [[not]] [[ever]], [[never]]: [[ἐπεί]] [[μήποτε]] ἰσχύει, [[since]] it is [[never]] of [[force]], [[because]] the [[writer]] thinks [[that]] the [[very]] [[idea]] of its having [[force]] is to be denied, WH [[text]] μή [[τότε]]), on [[which]] [[see]] Winer s Grammar, 480 (447), cf. Buttmann, 353 (304); [[but]] others [[refer]], [[this]] [[passage]] to 3a. [[below]].<br /><b class="num">2.</b> a prohibitory [[conjunction]]; [[lest]] [[ever]], [[lest]] at [[any]] [[time]], [[lest]] [[haply]], ([[also]] written [[separately]] μή [[πότε]] ([[see]] at the [[beginning]]), [[especially]] [[when]] the component parts [[retain]] [[each]] its [[distinctive]] [[force]]; cf. Lipsius, Gram. Untersuch., p. 129f; Ellendt, Lex. [[Sophocles]] 2:107. In the N. T. [[use]] of [[this]] [[particle]] the [[notion]] of [[time]] [[usual]] to [[πότε]] seems to [[recede]] [[before]] [[that]] of [[contingency]], [[lest]] [[perchance]])), so [[that]] it refers to the [[preceding]] [[verb]] and indicates the [[purpose]] of the designated [[action]] (Winer's Grammar, § 56,2): [[with]] a subjunctive [[present]] Sept. for פֶּן); R G); Sept. for פֶּן); οὐ [[namely]], [[θέλω]]); [[ἵνα]] prefixed, Buttmann, § 139,7, cf. [[also]], p. 368 (315)<br /><b class="num">d.</b>): (L T Tr WH; (cf. L T Tr WH). [[after]] verbs of fearing, [[taking]] [[care]] (Winer s Grammar, as [[above]]; Buttmann, § 139,48): [[with]] subjunctive aorist — so [[after]] [[προσέχω]], to [[take]] [[heed]], [[lest]] etc., φοβούμενοι or προσέχοντες [[must]] be mentally supplied, [[μήποτε]] [[οὐκ]] ἀρκέσῃ, [[lest]] [[perchance]] [[there]] be [[not]] [[enough]] (so [[that]] [[οὐκ]] ἀρκέσῃ forms [[one]] [[idea]], and φοβούμεθα [[must]] be supplied [[before]] [[μήποτε]]), R T WH marginal [[reading]]; [[but]] L Tr WH [[text]], [[together]] [[with]] Meyer, et al., [[have]] [[correctly]] restored [[μήποτε]] ([[namely]], [[τοῦτο]] γενέσθω (Winer's Grammar, § 64,7a.)) οὐ μή ἀρκέσῃ, i. e. "Not so! There [[will]] in no [[wise]] be [[enough]]" ([[see]] μή, IV:2); cf. Bornemann in the Studien und Kritiken for 1843, p. 143 f; ([[but]] [[all]] the editors [[above]] named [[remove]] the punctuation [[mark]] [[after]] [[μήποτε]]; in [[which]] [[case]] it [[may]] be [[connected]] [[directly]] [[with]] the words [[which]] [[follow]] it and translated ([[with]] R. V.) '[[peradventure]] [[there]] [[will]] [[not]] be [[enough]]'; cf. Buttmann, § 148,10, [[especially]], p. 354 (304) [[note]]. For [[additional]] examples of [[μήποτε]] in [[this]] [[sense]] (cf. [[Aristotle]], eth. Nic. 10,10, p. 1179a, 24; [[with]] indicative, ibid., pp. 1172{a}, 33; 1173{a} 22, etc.), [[see]] [[Sophocles]] Lexicon, [[under]] the [[word]]; [[Alexander]] Buttmann (1873) in his translation of Apoll. Dysk., [[index]] [[under]] the [[word]]; (cf. Liddell and Scott, [[under]] the [[word]] μή, Buttmann, 9)). [[after]] φοβοῦμαι, [[with]] [[present]] subjunctive φοβούμενος [[must]] be supplied [[before]] it, βλέπειν [[with]] a [[future]] indicative (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 56,2b. α.; Buttmann, 243 (209)), μή, III.), [[whether]] [[ever]], [[whether]] at [[any]] [[time]]; [[whether]] [[perchance]], [[whether]] [[haply]], (German doch nicht etwa; ob nicht etwa);<br /><b class="num">a.</b> in a [[direct]] [[question]] introduced by [[ἐπεί]], for, [[else]] ([[see]] [[ἐπεί]], 2under the [[end]]): so according to the [[not]] [[improbable]] [[interpretation]] of [[some]] (e. g. L WH marginal [[reading]], Delitzsch) in α. [[with]] the optative ([[where]] the words are regarded as the [[thought]] of [[someone]] (Winer s Grammar, § 41b. 4c.; Buttmann, § 139,60)): β.) β. [[with]] the subjunctive: R G L (cf. Buttmann, 46 (40));. [[but]] T Tr WH [[text]] [[give]] the optative), [[where]] [[μήποτε]] κτλ. [[depend]] on the suppressed [[idea]] διαλογιζόμενος (cf. Buttmann, § 139,62at the [[end]]; Winer's Grammar, as [[above]]).

|mltxt=(ΑΜ [[μήποτε]], Α και μή ποτε και ιων. τ. [[μήκοτε]], Μ και μήποτες)<br /><b>1.</b> (ως επίρρ. με απαγορευτική σημ.) με κανέναν τρόπο, για κανέναν λόγο («ὡς [[Ζεὺς]] μήποτ' ἄρξειεν θεῶν», <b>Αισχύλ.</b>)<br /><b>2.</b> (ως σύνδ. με ερωτηματική σημ.) [[μήπως]] («αἰσχυνόμενοι φάτιν ἀνδρῶν... μήποτέ τις εἴπῃσι», <b>Ομ. Οδ.</b>)<br /><b>αρχ.</b><br />(<b>ως επίρρ.</b>) ίσως («τὰ γὰρ τοῦ θανάτου [[μήποτε]] καὶ [[λίαν]] ἡμῑν [[ὄντα]] συνήθη καὶ συμφυᾱ», <b>Πλούτ.</b>).<br />[<b><span style="color: brown;">ΕΤΥΜΟΛ.</span></b> <span style="color: red;"><</span> <i>μή</i> <span style="color: red;">+</span> [[ποτέ]] (<b>[[πρβλ]].</b> [[ουδέποτε]])].

|mdlsjtxt=<br />or μή ποτε<br /><b class="num">I.</b> as adv. [[never]], on no [[account]], [[after]] ὡς, εἰ, etc., Aesch., etc.;—also with inf., in oaths, [[ὀμοῦμαι]], [[μήποτε]] τῆς εὐνῆς [[ἐπιβήμεναι]] Il.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> in [[prohibition]] or [[strong]] [[denial]], with aor. subj., [[μήποτε]] καὶ σὺ ὀλέσσῃς Od.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> [[perhaps]], like [[nescio]] an, Arist.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> as Conj. that at no [[time]], [[lest]] [[ever]], Lat. ne [[quando]], Od.