[*] 417. AORIST IMPERATIVE IN PROHIBITIONS: Third Person: DEM.19.77: “μὴ . . . μὴ δότω δίκην”. [42]DEM., 31: “ὃ μηδαμῶς νυνὶ γενέσθω”. [49]DEM., 1: “μηδενὶ ὑμῶν ἄπιστον γενέσθω”. Pr. 35.2: “καὶ μηδεμιᾶς λοιδορίας ὃ μέλλω λέγειν ἀρχὴ γενέσθω” . AESCHIN.1.19-20: “μηδὲ συνδικησάτω . . . μηδὲ ἀρξάτω . . . μηδὲ κηρυκευσάτω, μηδὲ πρεσβευσάτω . . . μηδὲ . . . εἰπάτω μηδέποτε” (5 instances in the provisions of a law quoted by Aeschines). 3.60: “ὅστις οὕτω διάκειται μήτ᾽ ἀπογνώτω μηδὲν μήτε καταγνώτω πρὶν <ἂν> ἀκούσῃ”. ISAE. 9.35: “καὶ εἰ λέγειν ἐμοῦ δύναται Κλέων κάλλιον, τοῦτο αὐτῷ . . . μηδὲν ἰσχυσάτω”. (The above are about the only occurrences in the Orators. See A. J. P. xiii (1892), 425 f.) PLATO, Apol. 17C: “πιστεύω γὰρ δίκαια εἶναι ἃ λέγω, καὶ μηδεὶς ὑμῶν προσδοκησάτω ἄλλως”. Legg. 924 C: “καὶ τοῦτο ἐκλιπέτω μηδέποτε κατὰ δύναμιν”. XEN. Ages. 10.3. Cyneg. 2.2: “καὶ μηδεὶς αὐτὰ φαῦλα νομισάτω εἶναι”. Cyr. 7.5.73: “καὶ μηδείς γε ὑμῶν ἔχων ταῦτα νομισάτω ἀλλότρια ἔχειν”. 8.7.26: “εἴ τις οὖν ὑμῶν . . . ὄμμα τοὐμὸν ζῶντος ἔτι προσιδεῖν ἐθέλει, προσίτω: ὅταν δ᾽” “ἐγὼ ἐγκαλύψωμαι, αἰτοῦμαι ὑμᾶς, ὦ παῖδες, μηδεὶς ἔτ᾽ ἀνθρώπων τοὐμὸν σῶμα ἰδέτω, μηδ᾽ αὐτοὶ ὑμεῖς”. SOPH. Ai. 1180-1: “μηδέ σε κινησάτω τις” . 1334: “μηδ᾽ ἡ βία σε μηδαμῶς νικησάτω” . O. R. 1449-50: “ἐμοῦ δὲ μήποτ᾽ ἀξιωθήτω τόδε” | “πατρῷον ἄστυ ζῶντος οἰκητοῦ τυχεῖν”. AESCHYL. P.V. 332: “καὶ νῦν ἔασον μηδέ σοι μελησάτω”. 1002-3: “εἰσελθέτω σε μήποθ᾽ ὡς ἐγὼ . . . θηλύνους γενήσομαι”. Sept. 1036: “μὴ δοκησάτω τινί”, but v. 1040: “μηδέ τῳ δόξῃ πάλιν”. PIND. O. 8.56: “μὴ βαλέτω με λίθῳ τραχεῖ φθόνος”. P. 5.23: “τῷ σε μὴ λαθέτω”. HOM. Od. 16.301: “μή τις ἔπειτ᾽ Ὀδυσῆος ἀκουσάτω ἔνδον ἐόντος”. Il. 16.200: “Μυρμιδόνες, μή τίς μοι ἀπειλάων λελαθέσθω”.
Syntax of Classical Greek from Homer to Demosthenes. Basil L. Gildersleeve. New York. American Book Company. 1900.
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