οὐθείς: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[[οὐθέν]], later form for [[οὐδείς]], [[οὐδέν]], found in Att. Inscrr. from 378 B.C. onwards along with [[οὐδείς]], which it supersedes entirely from about 325 B.C. to 100 B.C. (forty examples of θ, none of δ) <b class="b3">; οὐθείς</b> is in a majority in Ptolemaic papyri up to about 130 B.C., after which [[οὐδείς]] begins to be common, but does not prevail until i A. D.; the evidence of non-Att. Inscrr. is in general agreement with the foregoing; codd. of Th., Antipho, And., Lys., and [[Herodotus|Hdt.]] never have [[οὐθείς]], but the θ forms are freq. in those of Pl., X., Isoc., D., Hyp., Arist., and [[Theophrastus]], freq. as variants for the δ forms; also in Hellenistic writers, Teles, Plb., etc.; the frequency of θ forms in the uncials of [[LXX]] varies roughly according to the date (known or probable) of the translation of the book in question (though the δ forms are in a large majority in the [[LXX]] as a whole); the θ forms are rare in codd. of Str. and later writers.