LogeionPerseus analysis of οὔτέ:
οὔτε (and not): indeclform (adverb)
LSJ entry
οὔτε
οὔτε,
Adv., (
οὐ, τε)
joining neg. clauses, as τε joins posit., but rare in the simple sense II. mostly repeated, οὔτε . . , οὔτε . .
neither . . , nor . . ,
Lat. neque . . , neque . . ,
Hom.,
etc.—Hom. freq. joins another Particle with the first or second οὔτε,
as οὔτʼ ἂρ . . , οὔτε . . ; οὔτʼ ἂρ . . , οὔτʼ ἂρ . . ; οὔτʼ ἄρ τε . . , οὔτʼ ἄρα . .
Il. 5.89;
οὔτʼ οὖν, v. οὖν I; οὔτε . . οὖν . . , οὔτʼ ἄρα . .
20.7;
οὔτʼ ἄρ . . , οὔτε τι . . ,
or οὔτε τι . . , οὔτε . . ,
1.115,
Od. 1.202;
so too οὔτε . . , οὔτε μὴν . .
X. Cyr. 4.3.12;
οὔτε . . , οὔτʼ αὖ . . ,
v. infr. 3.
3. within one of the two clauses distd. by οὔτε a subordinate part may be introduced by οὐδέ, οὔτε γὰρ ἐκ σκίλλης ῥόδα φύεται οὐδʼ ὑάκινθος (
οὐθʼ codd.), οὐ δέ ποτʼ ἐκ δούλης τέκνον ἐλευθέριον Thgn. 537;
οὔτε . . ἀπέφηνεν οὐδὲ παρέσχηται μάρτυρας, οὔτʼ αὖ τὸν ἀριθμὸν . . ἐπανέφερεν D. 27.49:
sts. after several clauses distd. by οὔτε the last is introduced emphat. by οὐδέ, οὔτε φάρμακα οὔτε καύσεις οὔτε τομαὶ οὐδʼ αὖ ἐπῳδαί nor yet incantations, Pl. R. 426b,
cf. 499b (so μηδέ after clauses with μήτε, μήτε παιδεία μήτε δικαστήρια μήτε νόμοι μηδὲ ἀνάγκη μηδεμία Id. Prt. 327d);
so οὐδέ (
μηδέ)
may sts. follow a single οὔτε (μήτε) , οὐδέ ποτέ σφιν οὔτε τι πημανθῆναι ἔπι δέος, οὐδʼ ἀπολέσθαι neither to suffer misery, nor yet to die, v. l. in Od. 8.563,
cf. Pi. P. 8.83,
I. 2.44,
S. OC 1139,
1141 (s.v.l.), 1297 (cj.), Pl. Ap. 19d:
in many of these places, however, the readings vary, and editors have altered οὐδέ into οὔτε;
but this cannot be done in some cases, as οὔτʼ ἂν ὑπό γε ἑνὸς . . πάθοι, ἴσως δʼ οὐδὲ ὑπὸ πλεόνων Id. La. 182b:
so when οὔτε is folld. by οὐδὲ μέν,
Od. 13.207;
by οὐδὲ μήν,
X. Cyr. 4.5.27;
οὐδʼ αὖ,
v. supr.—But οὔτε (
μήτε)
cannot be used simply answering to οὐδέ (
μηδέ), v. μηδέ A. 2. 4. οὔτε may be folld. by a Posit. clause with τε, οὔτʼ αὐτὸς κτενέει, ἀπό τʼ ἄλλους πάντας ἐρύξει he both will not kill and will defend, Il. 24.156,
cf. A. Pr. 246,
262,
Hdt. 5.49,
X. An. 7.7.48,
etc.: sts. the neg. is added after the τε, οὔτʼ ὦν . . καρπὸν ἔδωκαν ἄρουραι, δένδρεά τʼ οὐκ ἐθέλει . . φέρειν Pi. N. 11.40,
cf. S. Ant. 763,
E. Hipp. 302;
κυάμους δὲ οὔτε τι μάλα σπείρουσι, τούς τε γενομένους οὔτε τρώγουσι οὔτε ἕψοντες πατέονται Hdt. 2.37:
the combination οὔτε . . , καί . .
is dub. in E. IT 591,
but is found in later writers, as Luc. DMeretr. 2.4,
Chor. in Rev.Phil. 1877.218.
b. in Poets, οὐ sts. follows without any conjunctive Particle, οὐκ ἦν ἀλέξημʼ οὐδὲν οὔτε βρώσιμον, οὐ χριστόν, οὔτε πιστόν A. Pr. 479;
οὔτε πλινθυφεῖς δόμους . . ᾖσαν, οὐ ξυλουργίαν ib.450,
cf. Theoc. 15.139 sq.; οὔτε βλάστας . . πατρός, οὐ μητρὸς εἶχον S. OC 972,
cf. Ant. 249,
E. Or. 41:
so also in the Prose of Hdt.,
ἐς ποταμὸν οὔτε ἐνουρέουσι οὔτε ἐμπτύουσι, οὐ χεῖρας ἐναπονίζονται, οὐδέ . .
1.138.