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μήτε ,
A.and not, mostly doubled, μήτε . . μήτε . . neither . . nor . . , Hom., etc.; μήτε . . , μήτ᾽ οὖν . . A.Ag.358 (anap.), 472 (lyr.); “μηδέ τῳ ἐκφάσθαι, μήτ᾽ ἀνδρῶν μήτε γυναικῶν” Od.13.308; μήτε . . , μηδέ, v. μηδέ; μήτε . . , τε . . both not . . , and . . , Il.13.230, Hdt.1.63, E.Heracl. 454, Lys.12.72; also μήτε . . , δέ . . S.OC421, Pl.Lg.627e; μή . . , μήτε . . S.OC496 codd., E.IA978 codd.
2. μήτε is perh. sts. omitted in the former of two clauses, “ἑκόντα μήτ᾽ ἄκοντα” S.Ph.771 (v. l.), cf. Ant.267.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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