Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, οὐκοῦν

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I. in questions, inviting assent to an inference, or to an addition to what has already received assent, οὐκοῦν δοκεῖ σοι . . ; you think then, do you not, that . . ? X.Cyr.2.4.15, Mem.1.4.5, cf. 4.2.20, Pl.Prt.332b, 360b-d, Cra.416c, etc.: with hortatory subj., οὐκοῦν καὶ ἄλλους σε φῶμεν δυνατὸν εἶναι ποιεῖν (sc. ῥήτορας ἀγαθούς）; Id.Grg.449b: folld. by οὐ when a neg. answer is invited, “οὐκοῦν οὐκ ἂν εἴη τὸ μὴ λυπεῖσθαί ποτε ταὐτὸν τῷ χαίρειν” ; Id.Phlb.43d, cf. Phd. 105e; “οὐκοῦν οὐδ᾽ ἂν εἷς ἀντείποι” ; D.16.4.

II. in affirm. sentences, surely then, “οὐκοῦν, εἰ ταῦτα ἀληθῆ, πολλὴ ἐλπὶς ἀφικομένῳ οἷ ἐγὼ πορεύομαι” Pl.Phd.67b: with subj. or imper., οὐκοῦν διδάσκωμεν αὐτόν, ἀλλὰ μὴ λοιδορῶμεν let us teach him, then, Id.La.195a; οὐκοῦν . . ἱκανῶς ἐχέτω let this then suffice, Id.Phdr.274b, cf. 278b, Luc.DMort.23.3; “οὐκοῦν ἂν ἤδη . . λέγοι” Ar.Pax43: with a prohibition, “οὐκοῦν μὴ . . αὐτομολήσῃς” Aeschin.1.159; οὐκοῦν ὑπόλοιπον δουλεύειν slavery, then, is the only alternative, D.8.59.

2. in replies, very well, yes, ἴωμεν . . Answ. “οὐκοῦν ἐπειδὰν πνεῦμα τοὐκ πρῴρας ἀνῇ, τότε στελοῦμεν” S.Ph.639; ἀμηχάνων ἐρᾷς. Answ. “οὐκοῦν, ὅταν δὴ μὴ σθένω, πεπαύσομαι” Id.Ant.91; ἥξει γὰρ αὐτά, κἂν ἐγὼ σιγῇ στέγω. Answ. “οὐκοῦν ἅ γ᾽ ἥξει καὶ σὲ χρὴ λέγειν ἐμοί” Id.OT342; ἀπόλωλας, ὦ κακόδαιμον. Answ. “οὐκοῦν, ἢν λάχω” Ar.Pax364; ἴθι δὴ σκεψώμεθα . . Answ. οὐκοῦν χρή yes, let us do so, Pl.Plt.289d, cf. 287c, Sph.254d; surely, “οὐκοῦν τρύγοιπος ταῦτα πάντ᾽ ἰάσεται” Ar.Pl.1087; “οὐκοῦν κλεινὴ καὶ ἔπαινον ἔχουσ᾽ . . ἀπέρχῃ” S.Ant.817 (anap.).

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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