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οὐδέποτε

oudepote

and not ever

Appears 80 times across Plato's dialogues.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

οὐδέποτε, in Ion. Prose οὐδέκοτε, Dor. οὐδέποκα prob. in IG 22.1126.5 (cf. μηδέποκα ib. 11), etc.:—Conj. and Adv. A. and not ever or nor ever, not even ever or never, in Hom. mostly with past tenses, Il. 1.155, 5.789, al.: but with pres., Od. 10.464, Hes. Th. 759: with fut., Od. 2.203, Hes. Op. 176; in Att., οὐδέποτε is commonly found with pres. or fut. (or its equivalent, as in οὐδέποτε μὴ λειφθῇ SIG 800.29 (Lycosura, i A. D.)), οὐδεπώποτε with past tenses, so οὐδέποτε ἐπὶ μέλλοντος . . , ἐπὶ δὲ παρῳχημένου τὸ οὐδεπώποτε Phryn. PSp.91 B.: but οὐδέποτε occurs with past tenses in Com.Adesp. 23 (cited by Phryn. l.c.), X. An. 2.6.13, Ages. 11.7, Oec. 20.22, Aeschin. 3.151, Men. 653; cf. οὐδέποτε tam in praeterito quam in futuro, quomodo et nos ‘nunquam’, Priscian. Inst. 18.257: in late writers the reference of πω to past time was neglected, v. οὐδεπώποτε, and cf. ἐξ ὧν ἀνάγκη . . μηδεπώποτε ἐλευθερίας ἐπιτυγχάνειν D.Chr. 14.1; cf. οὐδέπω, οὔποτε, οὔπω, οὐπώποτε, also μηδέποτε, μηπώποτε.—In Hom. οὐδέ ποτε shd. prob. be written divisim: sts. a word is put between, as in Il. 6.99.
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