previous next


Tanagra and Thespiae are the nearest considerable places east and west of Thebes, but Coronea is further away to the north-west beyond Haliartus.

ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον μὴ οὐ. ‘The first example of a construction (unique in H.) very common in Plato . . . in which μή with the subjunctive expresses a suspicion that something may prove to be true, and μὴ οὐ that something may not be true,’ Goodwin, § 265.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: