μηδείς
medeis
not one, not even one, nobody
Appears 1,082 times across Aristotle's works.
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Prior Analytics 309 ▸
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Chapter 5 26b34–28a9Chapter 9 30a15–30b6Chapter 25 41b36–42b26Chapter 30 46a3–30Chapter 36 48a40–49a5Chapter 39 49b3–9Book II 143 ▸
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Politics 99 ▸
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Book II 14 ▸
Chapter 5 1262b37–1264b25Chapter 7 1266a31–1267b21Chapter 8 1267b22–1269a28Chapter 11 1272b24–1273b26Book III 13 ▸
Book IV 9 ▸
Book V 24 ▸
Chapter 4 1303b17–1304b18Chapter 7 1306b22–1307b25Book VI 13 ▸
Book VII 19 ▸
Chapter 4 1325b33–1326b25Chapter 5 1326b26–1327a10Chapter 8 1328a21–1328b23Chapter 10 1329a40–1330a33Chapter 12 1331a19–1331b23Chapter 13 1331b24–1332b11Chapter 14 1332b12–1334a10 -
Metaphysics 78 ▸
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Book Γ 9 ▸
Book Δ 8 ▸
Book Ε 1 ▸
Chapter 1 1025b3–1026a32Book Ζ 10 ▸
Book Θ 8 ▸
Book Κ 12 ▸
Book Λ 4 ▸
Book Μ 6 ▸
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Topics 75 ▸
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Physics 70 ▸
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Book VIII 17 ▸
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Nicomachean Ethics 55 ▸
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Posterior Analytics 53 ▸
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Rhetoric 49 ▸
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Chapter 12 1388b31–1389b12Chapter 19 1392a8–1393a22Chapter 24 1400b34–1402a28Chapter 26 1403a16–1404a5 -
On the Heavens 43 ▸
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Generation of Animals 29 ▸
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Eudemian Ethics 21 ▸
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Parts of Animals 21 ▸
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On Generation and Corruption 20 ▸
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De Anima 19 ▸
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Meteorology 12 ▸
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Sophistical Refutations 11 ▸
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History of Animals 8 ▸
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Chapter 12 503b29–504b12Book VI 1 ▸
Chapter 18 571b3–573b16Book VIII 1 ▸
Chapter 17 600a27–601a22Book IX 1 ▸
Chapter 11 614b31–615a19 -
Physiognomonics 4 ▸
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De Mundo 3 ▸
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De Interpretatione 3 ▸
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De Lineis Insecabilibus 3 ▸
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On Divination in Sleep 2 ▸
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On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 2 ▸
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De Virtutibus et Vitiis 2 ▸
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De Audibilibus 1 ▸
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On Length and Shortness of Life 1 ▸
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On Sleep 1 ▸
Open On Sleep ›Chapter 1 453b11–455a3
Dictionary (LSJ)
μηδείς, μηδεμίᾰ, μηδέν (i.e. μηδὲ εἷς, μηδὲ μία, μηδὲ ἕν): fem. μηδὲ ἴα or μηδεΐα (or -έϊα) IG 12(2).6.12 (Mytil.):—A. not one, not even one, nobody (in neut. nothing), once in Hom. (who elsewh. uses μή τις, v. μήτις) , ἀναίνετο μηδὲν ἑλέσθαι Il. 18.500; μή πως . . μηδὲν ἀνύσσῃς Hes. Op. 395; μηδὲν ἄγαν Pi. Fr. 216, etc.: rare in pl. (μηδαμοί being used in Ion.), μηδένες ἄλλοι X. HG 5.4.20; μηδένας Pl. Euthd. 303c. 2. μηδὲ εἷς (so written) is found in Att. Inscrr., as IG 12.114.41, 22.487.9 (μηδʼ hενί ib.12.73.6), but is used esp. in an emphatic sense, not even one, μηδὲ ἕν Ar. Pl. 37: freq. with an intervening Particle or Prep., μηδʼ ἂν ἕνα Pl. Cra. 414d; μηδʼ ἐν ἑνὶ χρόνῳ Id. Prm. 156c; μηδʼ ἐξ ἑνός Id. Phdr. 245d; μηδʼ ἐφʼ ἑνί Id. R. 553d; μηδὲ περὶ ἑνός Id. Tht. 171c; μηδʼ ὑφʼ ἑνός, μηδʼ ὑπὸ μιᾶς, Id. Smp. 222d, Alc. 1.122a; μηδὲ ὑφʼ ἑνός IG 12.32.8. II. nobody, naught, good for naught, κἄμʼ ἴσον τῷ μ. S. OC 918: pl., οὐ γὰρ ἠξίου τοὺς μηδένας Id. Aj. 1114; μηδέν or τὸ μηδέν as Subst., naught, nothing, κεἰ τὸ μ. ἐξερῶ Id. Ant. 234; μ. λέγειν to say what is naught, X. Cyr. 8.3.20, etc.; ἡ ἡμετέρη εὐδαιμονίη . . ἀπέρριπται ἐς τὸ μ. Hdt. 1.32; τοῦ μηδενὸς ἀξίη Id. 6.137; ἐπὶ μηδὲν ἔρχεσθαι S. El. 1000; ἐς τὸ μ. ἥκειν E. Hec. 622; of persons, τὸ μ. a good-for-nothing, τὸ μ. εἶναι, of a eunuch, Hdt. 8.106; τοιγὰρ σὺ δέξαι μʼ ἐς τὸ σὸν στέγος, τὴν μηδὲν ἐς τὸ μ. S. El. 1166; κἂν τὸ μ. ὦ Id. Tr. 1107; τὸ μ. ὄντας Id. Aj. 1275; ὁ μ. ὤν ib.767; ὅτʼ οὐδὲν ὢν τοῦ μηδὲν ἀντέστης ὕπερ ib.1231, cf. 1094, E. Hec. 843, etc.; ἧττον αὐτοῖς ἔνι ἢ τὸ μ., i.e. it is a mere impossibility, Pl. Tht. 180a; also μ. εἶναι without the Art., Luc. Rh.Pr. 2. III. neut. μηδέν as Adv., not at all, by no means, μηδὲν ἐγκέλευʼ ἄγαν A. Pr. 72, cf. 344; μ. διαφέρειν πλὴν ὀνόματι Pl. Plt. 280a, etc.: with an Adv., μ. αἰνικτηρίως A. Pr. 949: freq. with Comp., μ. μᾶλλον, ἧσσον, etc., S. Aj. 280, 1329, etc.— When other negatives, also derived from μή, are used with it, they do not destroy, but strengthen the negation, μηδέποτε μηδὲν αἰσχρὸν ποιήσας ἔλπιζε λήσειν never hope to escape, when you have done anything base. Isoc. 1.16; cf. μηθείς.
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