οὔτις: Difference between revisions

|Definition=neut. <b class="b3">οὔτι</b>, declined like τις, (οὐ, τις) <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">no one</b> or <b class="b2">nobody</b>, neut. <b class="b2">nothing</b>, common in all Poets (Hom. uses it almost exclus. for <b class="b3">οὐδείς</b> in masc. and fem., but <b class="b3">οὐδείς</b> occurs in B.<span class="title">Fr.</span>28 (masc.), and is preferred by Trag. (<b class="b3">οὔτις</b> only twice in <span class="bibl">E., <span class="title">Fr.</span>45</span>, <span class="bibl">325</span>)), whereas <b class="b3">οὐδείς</b> only is used in Prose, exc. in neut. (v. infr.), οὔτις . . Δαναῶν <span class="bibl">Il.1.88</span>; οὔ. θεῶν <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>396</span> (lyr.), etc.: freq. agreeing with its Subst., οὔ. ἀνήρ <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">El.</span>188</span> (lyr.), cf. <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>445</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Pers.</span>414</span>, etc.: in Hom. and Hes. other words may come between, <b class="b3">οὐ γάρ τις, οὐ μὲν γάρ τις</b>, <span class="bibl">Il.6.487</span>, <span class="bibl">Od.8.552</span>; <b class="b3">οὔτε τινά... οὔτε τις</b> . . <span class="bibl">Il.13.224</span>: rare in pl., ἐπεὶ οὔτινες ἐγγύθεν εἰσίν <span class="bibl">Od.6.279</span>; προφήτας οὔτινας <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>1099</span> (lyr.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> neut. <b class="b3">οὔτι</b> is freq. used as Adv., <b class="b2">by no means, not at all</b>, <span class="bibl">Il.1.153</span>, <span class="bibl">2.338</span>, etc.: so not only in Trag., but in <span class="bibl">Hdt., 1.148</span>, <span class="bibl">3.36</span>, al., and in <span class="bibl">Pl., <span class="title">R.</span>331a</span>, <span class="bibl">351a</span>, al.: strengthd. <b class="b3">οὔτι γε</b>, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Phd.</span>81d</span>; οὔτι μὲν δή <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Tht.</span>186f</span>, etc.; οὔτι μήν <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">El.</span>817</span>, etc.: also separated, οὐ γάρ τι <span class="bibl">Il.20.467</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>1111</span>, etc.; οὐ μὲν γάρ τι <span class="bibl">Il.19.321</span>, etc.; οὔ νύ τι <span class="bibl">8.39</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> <b class="b3">τὸ οὔτι</b> <b class="b2">nothing</b>, <span class="bibl">S.E.<span class="title">M.</span>1.15</span>: pl., <b class="b3">τῶν οὐτινῶν</b> ib.<span class="bibl">17</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> as pr. n. with changed accent Οὖτις, ὁ, acc. <b class="b3">Οὖτιν</b>, <b class="b2">Nobody, Noman</b>, a fallacious name assumed by Odysseus (with a punning allusion to <b class="b3">μήτις</b> and <b class="b3">μῆτις</b>, v. <span class="bibl">Od.20.20</span>) to deceive Polyphemus, <span class="bibl">9.366</span>, <span class="bibl">408</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Cyc.</span>549</span>, <span class="bibl">672</span> sq., <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">V.</span>184</span> sq. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> name of a fallacy, <b class="b3">περὶ τοῦ οὔτιδος</b>, title of work by Chrysippus, <span class="bibl">D.L.7.198</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">82</span>.</span>