μήν: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=<br /><b class="num">I.</b> in doric and epic μάν, a Particle used to [[strengthen]] asseverations, Lat. [[vero]], [[verily]], [[truly]], Hom., etc.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> [[after]] [[other]] Particles,<br /><b class="num">1.</b> ἦ μήν, like ἦ μέν (μήν [[being]] only a stronger [[form]]), now [[verily]], [[full]] [[surely]], ἦ μὴν καὶ [[πόνος]] ἐστίν Il.;—so in Attic, to [[introduce]] an [[oath]], c. inf., ὄμνυσι δ' ἦ μὴν λαπάξειν Aesch., etc.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> καὶ μήν, to [[introduce]] [[something]] new or [[special]], καὶ μὴν Τάνταλον [[εἰσεῖδον]] Od.: in [[dramatic]] Poets to [[mark]] the [[entrance]] of a [[person]] on the [[stage]], and see…, [[here]] [[comes]]…; so of new facts or arguments, Trag., Dem.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> ἀλλὰ μήν, yet [[truly]], Lat. [[verum]] [[enimvero]], Aesch., Ar.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> οὐ μήν, of a [[truth]] not, Il., [[Attic]]<br /><b class="num">III.</b> [[after]] interrogatives, it [[mostly]] takes [[somewhat]] of an objective [[force]], τί μήν; [[quid]] [[vero]]? [[what]] then? i. e. of [[course]], [[naturally]] so, Aesch., etc.; τί μὴν οὐ; well, why not? Eur.; πῶς μήν; well, but how… ? Xen.<br /><b class="num">IV.</b> [[much]] like [[μέντοι]], Lat. [[tamen]], οὐ μὴν ἄτιμοι τεθνήξομεν Aesch.