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οὐ γάρ, in orat. recta,
A.for not, in assigning a negative reason, Il. 22.438, etc.: other Particles are sts. put between, as “οὐ μὲν γάρ” 5.402; οὐ γάρ, in assent to a neg., no indeed, Pl. Tht.150a, etc.
II. elliptic, in interrog. replies, where yes or well must be supplied, τούτους ἀγαθοὺς ἐνόμισας;—οὐ γάρ . . ; yes (or well), and aren't they? Ar. Pax970.
2. in questions, where an affirm. answer is expected, οὐ γὰρ ὁ Παφλαγὼν ἀπέκρυπτε ταύτας; did not he keep them hidden? Id.Eq.1392, cf. D.22.73, etc.
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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