μήποτε

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μή (mḗ, “not”) + ποτέ (poté, “ever, at some time”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mɛ̌ː.po.te/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈme̝.po.te/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.po.te/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.po.te/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.po.te/

Adverb

μήποτε • (mḗpote)

never, on no account
- 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 205
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 882
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 182
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 977
- 470 BCE, Aeschylus, The Suppliants 617
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.133
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.275
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.455
- 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander, The Girl from Samos 97
- 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 86
1. (in prohibition or strong denial, with aorist subjunctive)
  - 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 19.81
  - 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 11.441
2. (Koine) perhaps
  - 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1172A.33
  - 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Genesis 24.5
  - 700 BCE – 600 BCE, Aristeas, Collected Works 15
  - 280 BCE – 220 BCE, Philo of Byzantium, Compendium of Mechanics 1.13
  - 108 CE, Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus 3.22.80
  - 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.106D
  - 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Pronouns 18.4

Conjunction

μήποτε • (mḗpote)

that at not time, lest ever
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 21.324
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.77
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.53

References

“μήποτε”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“μήποτε”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“μήποτε”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
μήποτε in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
“μήποτε”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G3379 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- never idem, page 556.

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