A.indeed too much! E.Ba.785; μὴ σκῶπτέ μ᾽, ὦδέλφ᾽, οὐ γὰρ ἀλλ᾽ ἔχω κακῶς I really am unwell! Ar.Ra.58, cf.Ec.386: also to negate by substituting a still stronger affirmative, ἆρ᾽ οὐ παρεῖναι τὰς γυναῖκας δῆτ᾽ ἐχρῆν; Answ. οὐ γάρ, μὰ Δί᾽, ἀλλὰ πετομένας ἥκειν πάλαι more than that, they ought to have come flying long ago, Id.Lys.55: = καὶ γάρ, Id.Nu.232, Ra.192,498, Eq.1205, E.IT1005, Supp.570, Call.Iamb.1.92; “οὐ γάρ μοὐστὶν ἀλλ᾽ ἀκουστέα” Ar.Ra.1180.
οὐ γὰρ ἀλλά, an ellipt. phrase, used in Att. to express an indignant or impassioned affirmative, οὐ γὰρ ἀλλ᾽ ὑπερβάλλει τάδε this is
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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