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οὐ μὲν οὖν or οὐμενοῦν ,
A.on the contrary . . not . . , introducing a neg. statement in contradiction or correction of a preceding statement or suggestion, Ar.Pl.870, Ra.556, 1188 “οὐδενὸς μὲν οὖν ἄξιον” Pl.Euthd. 305a; ἐγώ σοι οὐκ ἂν δυναίμην ἀντιλέγειν; Answ. οὐ μὲν οὖν τῇ ἀληθείᾳ δύνασαι ἀντιλέγειν nay it is not me, but rather truth, that you cannot gainsay, Id.Smp.201c, cf. D.18.140:—so οὐμενοῦν . . γε, Paus.1.20.1; v. μέν B. 11.2.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Aristophanes, Frogs, 1188
    • Aristophanes, Frogs, 556
    • Aristophanes, Plutus, 870
    • Bacchylides, Epinicians, 11.2
    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 140
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.20.1
    • Plato, Symposium, 201c
    • Plato, Euthydemus, 305a
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