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μὴ ἀλλά , an elliptic phrase for μὴ γένοιτο, ἀλλά . . , or μὴ λέγε τοῦτο, ἀλλά . . : only used in answers,
A.nay but . . , not so, but . . , σὲ δὲ ταῦτ᾽ ἀρέσκει; Answ. “μἀλλὰ πλεῖν ἢ μαίνομαι” Ar.Ra.103, cf. 611, 745, 751, Pl.Alc.1.114e, Men.75b; μὴ οὕτως, ἀλλ' . . Id.Prt.318b; μηδαμῶς . . , ἀλλὰ . . Id.Grg.497b, Phdr.234e.
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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