οὔκουν: Difference between revisions

|Definition=Ion. οὔκων, Adv., (οὐκ, οὖν): <span class="sense"><span class="bld">I</span> in direct negation, <b class="b2">certainly not, at any rate… not</b>, freq. with stress on the word which follows <b class="b3">οὖν, οὔκουν Ἀτρεῖδαι τοῦτ' ἔτλησαν εὐφόρως οὕτως ἐνεγκεῖν</b> the Atridae (emphat.) [[certainly]] did [[not]] consent... <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ph.</span>872</span>; οὔκουν μ' ἐν Ἄργει γ' οἷα πράττεις λανθάνει <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Eq.</span>465</span>; <b class="b3">οὔκουν… γε</b> is the neg. of γοῦν, οὔκουν ἔμοιγε χρώμενος διδασκάλῳ <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>324</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ant.</span>321</span>, <span class="bibl">993</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ph.</span>907</span>, <span class="bibl">1389</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">IA</span>9</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">IT</span>516</span>, <span class="bibl">Th.2.43</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Sph.</span>241c</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Phdr.</span>258c</span>, <span class="bibl">X. <span class="title">Mem.</span>4.2.10</span>; <b class="b3">οὔκουν ἀπολείψομαί γέ σου... εὶ τοῦτο λέγεις</b> I will [[not]] desert (emphat.) you, if that is what you mean, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>4.1.23</span>; <b class="b3">οὔκουν γ' ἂν οἶμαι… εἰπεῖν τινα</b>… <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phd.</span>70b</span>; <b class="b3">ἐγὼ τοίνυν κινδυνεύω ἐκτὸς τῶν πάντων εἶναι· οὔκουν ἱκανῶς γε ἔχω… συμβαλέσθαι</b> [[at any rate]] I can- [[not]] guess... <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">R.</span>398c</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Lg.</span>807a</span>, <span class="bibl">810e</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> where [[οὖν]] has a resumptive force, <b class="b3">οὔκουν ἀπιστεῖν εἰκός</b> [[accordingly]], it is [[un]]reasonable to disbelieve... <span class="bibl">Th.1.10</span> (referring back to <b class="b3">οὐκ ἄν τις ἀπιστοίη</b> ibid.); so <b class="b3">οὐκ ἂν οὖν νήσων ἐκράτει… εἰ μὴ ναυτικὸν εἶχε</b> ib.<span class="bibl">9</span>; οὔκουν χρή <span class="bibl">Id.2.11</span>; with inferential force, <b class="b3">οὔκουν τοῦτο δεῖ δεικνύναι, ὅτι... ἀλλ' ὅτι</b>… [[therefore]] one ought to prove [[not]] that... but that... <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Ph.</span>213a31</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ra.</span>1065</span>; <b class="b3">οὔκουν οἶδα</b> [[so]] I [[don't]] know, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Cra.</span>384b</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> in impassioned questions, almost = [[οὐ]] alone, <b class="b3">οὔκουν, Προμηθεῦ, τοῦτο γιγνώσκεις, ὅτι</b>… <b class="b2">;</b> <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>379</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Eu.</span>725</span>; οὔκουν ἐγώ σοι ταῦτα προύλεγον πάλαι <b class="b2">;</b> <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>973</span>; οὔκουν τάδ', ὦ παῖ, δεινά <b class="b2">;</b> <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ph.</span>628</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">IT</span> 1190</span>, <span class="bibl">1196</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Eq.</span>820</span>, <span class="bibl">Lys.10.12</span>,13, <span class="bibl">Is.5.34</span>, <span class="bibl">11.13</span>, <span class="bibl">Aeschin.1.85</span>, <span class="bibl">2.87</span>, al. (sts., but prob. wrongly, written [[οὐκοῦν]] or <b class="b3">οὐκ οὖν</b>): sometimes separately, <b class="b3">οὐ δεινὸν οὖν δῆτ'</b>… <b class="b2">;</b> <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Eq.</span>875</span>: freq. with 2sg. fut., to express an urgent or impatient imper., οὔκουν ἐπείξῃ τῷδε δεσμὰ περιβαλεῖν <b class="b2">;</b> <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>52</span>; οὔκουν μ' ἐάσεις κἀκτὸς εἶ <b class="b2">;</b> <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>676</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ant.</span>244</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ra.</span>200</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Pl.</span>71</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Smp.</span>175a</span>: also with τις and 3sg. fut., <b class="b3">οὔκουν τις ὡς τάχιστα… ἀναγκάσει</b>… <b class="b2">;</b> <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>897</span>; or opt. with <b class="b3">ἄν, οὔκουν ἂν εἴποις</b>… <b class="b2">;</b> <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Aj.</span>1051</span>: with neg. repeated, οὔκουν ἐάσεις οὐδ' ὑπ' εὐφήμου βοῆς θῦσαί με <b class="b2">;</b> <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">El.</span>630</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> in replies, where the speaker seizes an opening offered by the previous speaker, <b class="b3">οὔκουν ὅμαιμος χὠ καταντίον θανών</b><b class="b2">; well, and</b> is [[not]] he who died facing him your brother too? <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ant.</span>512</span>; <b class="b3">οὔκουν γέλως ἥδιστος εἰς ἐχθροὺς γελᾶν</b><b class="b2">; well, and</b> is [[not]] the sweetest laughter to laugh over one's enemies? <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Aj.</span>79</span>; <b class="b3">ἴτ' ἐγκονεῖτε, σπεύδεθ', ὡς ὁ καιρὸς οὐχὶ μέλλειν</b>. Answ. οὔκουν ὁρᾷς ὁρμωμένους ἡμᾶς πάλαι προθύμως <b class="b2">;</b> <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pl.</span>257</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">916</span>, <span class="bibl">1031</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ra.</span>27</span>, <span class="bibl">89</span>, <span class="bibl">1139</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">V.</span>171</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> in Ion. Prose [[ὦν]] (freq. with little meaning) is inserted between [[οὐκ]] and a Verb (as elsewhere between a Prep. and a Verb, v. [[οὖν]] <span class="bibl">11.2</span>), ταῦτα λέγοντες, τοὺς Κροτωνιήτας οὐκ ὦν ἔπειθον <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.137</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">138</span>; <b class="b3">οὐκ ὦν δὴ ἔπειθε</b> [[however]], he [[failed to]] persuade her, <span class="bibl">Id.1.11</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">24</span>,<span class="bibl">59</span>,al.</span>