[1195] οὐδὲν βροτῶν nothing (i.e. no being) among men, a stronger phrase than οὐδένα: Nauck compares fr. 652 οἱ δὲ τῇ γλώσσῃ θρασεῖς ι φεύγοντες ἄτας ἐκτός εἰσι τῶν κακῶν: ι Ἄρης γὰρ οὐδὲν τῶν κακῶν λωτίζεται, “no dastard life ”: HH Herm. 34 “οὔπερ τι πεφυγμένον ἔστ᾽ Ἀφροδίτην ι οὔτε θεῶν μακάρων οὔτε θνητῶν ἀνθρώπων.” Add Soph. Phil. 446 (with reference to Thersites being still alive) ἔμελλ᾽: ἐπεὶ οὐδέν πω κακόν γ᾽ ἀπώλετο, ι ἀλλ᾽ εὖ περιστέλλουσιν αὐτὰ δαίμονες: ι καί πως τὰ μὲν πανοῦργα καὶ παλιντριβῆ ι χαίρουσ᾽ ἀναστρέφοντες ἐξ Ἅιδου, τὰ δὲ ι δίκαια καὶ τὰ χρήστ᾽ ἀποστέλλουσ᾽ ἀεί. The οὐδένα of the MSS. involves the resolution of a long syllable (the second of οὐδὲν)which has an ictus; this is inadmissible, as the ear will show any one who considers the antistrophic verse, 1203, Θήβαισιν ἀνάσσων.
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