A. CONJUNCTION, but not, mostly answering to μέν (sts. written divisim), Il. 5.138, 24.418; without μέν, 5.21, etc.: sts. the first οὐδέ, but not, is folld. by οὐδέ, nor, ἄλλοις μὲν πᾶσιν ἑήνδανεν, οὐδέ ποθʼ Ἥρῃ, οὐδὲ Ποσειδάωνʼ, οὐδὲ γλαυκώπιδι κούρῃ 24.25.

II. more freq. and not, nor: sts. without a neg. preceding, Κίρκη δʼ ὡς ἐνόησεν ἔμʼ ἥμενον, οὐδʼ ἐπὶ σίτῳ χεῖρας ἰάλλοντα Od. 10.375; τραχὺς μόναρχος οὐδʼ ὑπεύθυνος A. Pr. 326, cf. 102,259,al.; δεινὸν γάρ, οὐδὲ ῥητόν S. Ph. 756, cf.996, OT 398, 868(lyr.), Hdt. 1.97, etc.: after a neg. compd., ὃν ἠτίμησʼ Ἀγαμέμνων, οὐδʼ ἀπέλυσε θύγατρα Il. 1.95; ἀνήμεροι γὰρ οὐδὲ πρόσπλατοι ξένοις A. Pr. 716; ἄστιπτος οὐδʼ οἰκουμένη S. Ph. 2; ἄθικτος οὐδʼ οἰκητός Id. OC 39.

2. with a neg. preceding, nor, βρώμης δʼ οὐχ ἅπτεαι οὐ. ποτῆτος Od. 10.379; οὐκέτισοὶ . . μένος ἔμπεδον οὐ. τις ἀλκή 22.226; οὐκ ἔχων βάσιν οὐ. τινʼ ἐγχώρων S. Ph. 692 (lyr.), cf. 681 (lyr.), 905,955, X. Oec. 20.2, etc.: sts. the preceding neg. is itself οὐδέ, = and not, as in Od. 22.222; οὐδέ, = nor may be repeated any number of times, e.g. three times in S. OT 1378.—Sts. the neg. follows the whole word-group instead of preceding it, σιδήρῳ δὲ οὐδʼ ἀργύρῳ χρέωνται οὐδέν but iron or silver use they not at all, Hdt. 1.215; Θεσσαλοῦ μὲν οὐδʼ Ἱππάρχου οὐδεὶς παῖς Th. 6.55; ἁπλοῦν μὲν οὐ. δίκαιον οὐδὲν ἂν εἰπεῖν ἔχοι D. 22.4: but οὐδὲ . . οὐδέ never means neither . . nor (like οὔτε . . οὔτε); where this combination occurs, the first οὐδέ is used without reference to the second, e.g. καὶ μὴν οὐδʼ ἡ ἐπιτείχισις οὐδὲ τὸ ναυτικὸν ἄξιον φοβηθῆναι and moreover we have no reason to fear their fortifications, nor yet their navy, Th. 1.142.

III. οὐδέ may also follow οὔτε, by an anacoluth., as in τε . . , δέ . . (v. οὔτε II.3); but οὔτε cannot follow οὐδέ.—Cf. μηδέ A. 2.

B. ADVERB, not even, in Hom. mostly with Advbs., οὐδʼ ῃβαιόν not even a little, no not a bit, not at all, Il. 2.386; οὐ. τυτθόν 1.354; οὐ. μίνυνθα 20.27; so also ἐπεὶ οὔ οἱ ἔνι φρένες οὐδʼ ἠβαιαί he has no sense, no not even a little, 14.141, cf. Od. 21.288; τότε μὲν εὖ ζῶντες, νῦν δὲ οὐ. ζῶντες Pl. R. 329a: freq. in Att., τούτῳ μὲν οὐ. διελέγετο he did not even exchange words with him, Lys. 3.31, cf. Ar. Nu. 425; οὐδʼ, εἰ γέγονεν, οἶδα D. 18.70, etc.: in the same sense, οὐ. γʼ Pl. Phd. 97a, 97b, 106b; οὐ. γʼ αὖ Id. R. 499a; οὐ. μήν X. Cyr. 3.3.50, etc.; Ep. οὐ. μέν Il. 9.374, etc.: in Att. freq. with εἷς (whence οὐδείς) , οὐδʼ ἂν εἷς θύσειεν Ar. Pl. 137: sts. without elision, οὐδὲ εἷς ib.1182, Herod. 1.45; οὐκ ἄλλʼ οὐ. ἕν Ar. Pl. 138, cf. Ra. 927; also οὐ. καθʼ ἕν Th. 2.87; οὐ. παρʼ ἑνός X. Cyr. 2.3.10, etc.—This οὐδέ freq. follows καί, and not even, καὶ οὐδʼ αὐτοὶ αὖ μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ . . Th. 7.56, cf. X. An. 3.2.4, etc.; also ἀλλʼ οὐδέ, most freq. in phrase ἀλλʼ οὐδʼ ὧς . . Il. 7.263,9.351, etc.

II. also not, not . . either, nor yet . . , ὁ δίκαιος τοῦ δικαίου δοκεῖ τί σοι ἂν ἐθέλειν πλέον ἔχειν; Answ. οὐδαμῶς . . ; Qu. τί δέ; τῆς δικαίας πράξεως; Answ. οὐ. τῆς δικαίας Pl. R. 349b, cf. Ap. 19d,21d, X. Mem. 3.11.4.

C. Repetition of οὐδέ and combination with οὐ:

I. in Relat. as well as antec. clause, ὥσπερ οὐδʼ ηὔχετο, οὐδʼ ᾤετο Pl. Alc. 2.141a, cf. X. Cyr. 1.6.18.

II. οὐ γὰρ οὐδέ, as ἀλλʼ οὐ γὰρ οὐ. νουθετεῖν ἔξεστί σε S. El. 595, cf. Aj. 1242, OT 287, etc.; οὐ. γὰρ οὐ. Il. 5.22, 6.130, Od. 8.32, Hdt. 4.16, etc.; οὐ. μὲν οὐ. Il. 2.703, etc.; οὐ μὰν οὐ. 23.441, etc.; cf. οὐ c.

A. threshold, esp. threshold of a house, in Hom. χάλκεος οὐδός (as in Hes. Th. 811), Od. 7.83,89; also λάϊνος Il. 9.404, Od. 8.80, Parm. 1.12; μέλινος Od. 17.339; δρύϊνος 21.43; μέγας Hes. Th. 749.

2. generally, threshold, entrance to any place, ἐπὶ προθύροις Ὀδυσῆος, οὐδοῦ ἐπʼ αὐλείου Od. 1.104; to the nether world, Il. 8.15; χαλκόπους ὀδός S. OC 57, cf. 1590: in pl., perh. lintel, Theoc. 23.50 (dub. l., ὀόδων cod.).

3. metaph., ἐπὶ γήραος οὐδῷ on the threshold which is old age, i.e. perh., on the threshold that leads from life to death (so οὐδὸς βιότου the end of life, Q.S. 10.426), Il. 22.60, Od. 15.348, Hes. Op. 331, Hdt. 3.14, cf. Pl. R. 328e; ἐπὶ γήρως ὀδῷ Lycurg., Hyp., and Men. ll. cc.; μέχρι γήραος οὐδοῦ Ps.-Phoc. 230; γήραος οὐδὸν ἱκέσθαι Od. 23.212, cf. 15.246.—Poet. word, used by Arist. Metaph. 1042b19, Plu. TG 17, and Luc. Dom. 18, al., in the form οὐδός, which is Ion., cf. Hp. Art. 78, GDI 5601a (Ephesus), IGΙΙ(2).158 A 69 (Delos, iii B. C.), and is used later as gloss on βηλός, AB 224 (so ὀδός in 225 and Hsch. s.v. ὀρρόβηλος). (The forms οὐδός ὠδός ὀδός point to *ὀδϝός.)

A. = ὁδός, way, only in Od. 17.196.