οὔτις: Difference between revisions

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