may

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substantive

P. Θαργηλιών, ὁ.

verb intransitive

you may, you are allowed to: P. and V. ἔξεστί σοι (infin.), πάρεστί σοι (infin.), or πάρα σοι (infin.), ἔνεστί σοι (infin.).

in wishes: see would that.

you may be right: P. κινδυνεύεις ἀληθῆ λέγειν (Plato, Symposium 205D).

you may never have seen a state governed by a tyrant: P. ὑμεῖς δὲ τάχα οὐδὲ τεθέασθε τυραννουμένην πόλιν (Plato, Leges 711A).

this reproach may perhaps have come extorted by anger: V. ἀλλ' ἦλθε μὲν δὴ τοῦτο τοὔνειδος τάχ' ἄν ὀργῇ βιασθέν (Sophocles, Oedipus Rex 523).

you may get you gone where you will: V. σὺ μὲν κομίζοις ἂν σεαυτὸν ᾗ θέλεις (Sophocles, Antigone 444).

my method may be worse or it may be better: P. ἴσως μὲν γὰρ (ὁ τρόπος) χείρων, ἴσως δὲ βελτίων ἂν εἴη (Plato, Ap. 18A).