οὐθείς: Difference between revisions

|Definition=<b class="b3">οὐθέν</b>, later form for <b class="b3">οὐδείς, οὐδέν</b>, found in Att. Inscrr. from <span class="bibl">378</span> B.C. onwards along with <b class="b3">οὐδείς</b>, which it supersedes entirely from about <span class="bibl">325</span> B.C. to <span class="bibl">100</span> B.C. (forty examples of θ, none of δ) <b class="b3">; οὐθείς</b> is in a majority in Ptolemaic papyri up to about <span class="bibl">130</span> B.C., after which <b class="b3">οὐδείς</b> 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 Hdt. never have <b class="b3">οὐθείς</b>, but the θ forms are freq. in those of Pl., X., Isoc., D., Hyp., Arist., and Thphr., 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.