μηδείς: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=[i. e. [[μηδὲ]] εἷς, [[μηδὲ]] μία, [[μηδὲ]] ἕν]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> and not one, [[related]] to [[οὐδείς]] as μή to οὐ, Il., etc.; —[[rare]] in Pl., Xen.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[μηδὲ]] εἷς, [[which]] (so written) is [[never]] elided [[even]] in [[attic]], retained the [[first]] [[emphatic]] [[sense]] not [[even]] one, and often had a Particle [[between]], as μηδ' ἂν εἷς, or a prep., μηδ' ἐξ [[ἑνός]], [[μηδὲ]] περὶ [[ἑνός]] etc., Plat.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> [[nobody]], [[naught]], [[good]] for [[naught]], ὁ [[μηδείς]] Soph.; pl., οὐ γὰρ ἠξίου τοὺς μηδένας Soph.:— so, [[μηδέν]] or τὸ [[μηδέν]] often as [[substantive]], [[naught]], [[nothing]], Soph.; μηδὲν λέγειν to say [[what]] is [[naught]], Xen.; τοῦ μηδενὸς [[ἄξιος]] Hdt.; ἐς τὸ μηδὲν ἥκειν Eur.;—and of persons, τὸ [[μηδέν]] a [[good]] for [[naught]], τὸ μηδὲν [[εἶναι]] of an [[eunuch]], Hdt.; τὸ μ. ὄντας Soph.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> neut. [[μηδέν]] as adv. not at all, by no [[means]], Aesch., etc.