Ποῦ μήν

well where?

Translated by Nick Nicholas25 May 2009Vetting: high4 revisions

4 words

[Meaning] so where exactly?

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ποῦ μήν· ποῦ δὴ οὖν;

Betacode

*pou= mh/n: pou= dh\ ou)=n;

This entry reproduces Photius pi1131 Theodoridis). The headword phrase itself occurs in, and is very probably quoted from, Plato, Theaetetus 142A (web address 1): "I wasn't really in the city." -- "Well where [were you]?" -- "As I was going down to the harbour I met Theaetetus...". See on the passage J.D. Denniston, The Greek Particles (Oxford 1954) 333 ('Following the rejection of a supposition').
On this usage of mh/n see generally LSJ s.v., III.

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