μήπω, not “οὔπω”, because of the imperat. ἡγεῖσθε (278). After verbs of thinking, the negative with the inf. is ordinarily οὐ ( Plat. Prot. 317A “ἡγοῦμαι γὰρ αὐτοὺς οὔ τι διαπράξασθαι”): though μή is used in asseveration (as with “ὄμνυμι”), and sometimes in strong expressions of personal conviction: O. T. 1455 “οἶδα μήτε μ᾽ ἂν νόσον ι μήτ᾽ ἄλλο πέρσαι μηδέν”, where see n. Thuc. 6.102 ad fin. “νομίσαντες μὴ ἂν...ἱκανοὶ γενέσθαι” (and id. 4. 18): Xen. Cyr. 7.5.59 “ἐνόμισε δὲ μὴ ἂν γενέσθαι ποτὲ πιστόν.” φωτὸς … βροτῶν, no wight among mortals, no one in the world. In Ai. 1358 “τοιοίδε μέντοι φῶτες ἔμπληκτοι βροτῶν”, though “βροτοῖς” is a specious variant, “βροτῶν” has the better authority: cp.
: 23. 187 “ἀνδρῶν δ᾽ οὔ κέν τις ζωὸς βροτός”.“οὐ γάρ πού τινες ὧδε καταθνητῶν ἀνθρώπων
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