μηδέ : but not. and
not, nor, not even, not at all;
μηδέ always introduces an additional
negation, after some negative idea has already been expressed or
implied. It is never a correlative word; if more than one μηδέ occurs at the beginning of successive
clauses, the first μηδέ refers to some
previous negative idea just as much as the second one or the third one
does; μηδέ τις.. οἶος μεμάτω μάχεσθαι, μηδ᾽
ἀναχωρείτω, Il. 4.303;
here the first μηδέ means and not,
nor, the direct quotation being regarded as a continuation
of what precedes in the indirect form. Usually μηδέ at the beginning of a sentence means not
even or not at all. For the difference
between μηδέ and οὐδέ, see μή. See also
οὐδέ, fin.