Strong G3375μήν

μήν,
Doric dialect [Refs 5th c.BC+ ((5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 78, etc.))], Aeolic dialect [Refs 7th c.BC+ ((7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 23.5, etc.))], and old Epic dialect μάν (in Hom.always followed by a vowel except [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.895, 765, whereas μήν)] is followed by a consonant except in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.45)]; original μάν has probably been changed to μέν except when the metre prevented), a Particle used to strengthen asseverations, verily, truly; a synonym of μέν but stronger, and like it always following the word which begins the clause, ὧδε γὰρ ἐξερέω, καὶ μ. τετελεσμένον ἔσται and so verily.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.410)]; ἴστε μὰν.. ye know doubtless, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 4(3).35: frequently with _imperative_, ἄγε μ.)] on then, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.302; ἄγρει μάν 5.765; ἄναγε μάν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 963 (Lyric poetry); ἕπεο μάν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 182 (Lyric poetry).)]
II after other Particles,
II.1 ἦ μήν, now verily, full surely, ἦ μὴν καὶ πόνος ἐστίν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.291, compare “hymnus ad Apollinem” 87, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 101; ἦ μάν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.370, 13.354, Sapph.[same place], 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.40, +others (εἶ μάν “IG” 5 (1).1390.27 (Andania, 1st c.BC)))]: strengthened, ἦ δὴ μάν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.538)]: frequently later in strong protestations or oaths, with infinitive, ὄμνυσι δ᾽ ἦ μὴν λαπάξειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 531, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1186, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.3.26: in negation, ἦ μ. μή.. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.81, etc. (but also ὀμνύω μὴ μὰν φρονησεῖν “SIG” 527.36 (Crete, 3rd c.BC)))]: in Prose also to begin an independent clause, ὀμνύω.., ἦ μ. ἐγὼ ἐθυόμην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.1.31; καὶ νὴ τὸν κύνα,.. ἦ μ. ἐγὼ ἔπαθόν τι τοιοῦτον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 22a.)]
II.2 καὶ μήν, sometimes simply to add an asseveration, see entry [near the start],[Refs 5th c.BC+ (compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 2.13, etc.; καὶ δὴ μάν 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 7.120)]: frequently to introduce something new or deserving special attention, καὶ μὴν Τάνταλον εἰσεῖδον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.582, compare 593, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 459, “Pers.” 406, etc.)]; especially in dramatic Poets to mark the entrance of a person on the stage, here comes.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Th.” 372, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 339; also ὅδε μ. Αἵμων 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 626 (_anapaest meter_))], etc.; of new facts, and besides, nay more, καὶ μήν.. γε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 982, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 369, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 4.15, etc.)]; in Orators to introduce new arguments, καὶ μήν.. γε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 153b, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.56)]; to introduce a counter-argument, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1185, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 452c; καὶ μὴν καί 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 27.30, etc.: also in answers, to denote approbation or assent, ἀλλ᾽ ἢν ἐφῇς μοι.. λέξαιμ᾽ ἂν ὀρθῶς. Answ. καὶ μ. ἐφίημι)] well, I allow it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 556)]; μὴ νῦν διάτριβ᾽, ἀλλ᾽ ἄνυε πράττων.. Answ. καὶ μ. βαδίζω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 413 (variant), compare “Ra.” 895, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 317; so καὶ μ... γε 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 426e, etc.)]
II.3 ἀλλὰ μήν, yet truly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Pers.” 233, etc.; ἀλλὰ μάν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 765; ἀλλὰ μήν.. γε [prev. author] “Ra.” 258)]; to allege something not disputed, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 187a: rarely separated, ἀλλ᾽ ἐστὶ μ. οἰκητός 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 28)]; ἀλλ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ἐγὼ μ... [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 401: more strongly, ὅμως μ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 297d.)]
II.4 ναὶ μήν, above all, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 76.2.)]
II.5 οὐ μήν, of a truth not, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.52, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1068, etc.: elsewhere in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus οὐ μάν, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.318, etc.)]; μὴ μάν (Attic dialect μὴ μήν) oh do not, [Refs (8.512, 15.476)], etc.; ἀλλ᾽ οὐ μάν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (17.41; ἀλλ᾽ οὐ μάν.. γε 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 153 (Lyric poetry); οὐδὲ μάν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.87.)]
II.6 ὡς μήν, = {ἦ μήν}, ὀμμνύω Δία.. ὡς μ. κρινεῖν τὰ ἀντιλεγόμενα [Refs (“Delph.” 3(1).362 i 40.)]
III after interrogatives, τί μ.; well, what of it? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 203, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 145e, etc.)]; τί μ. οὔ well, why not? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 706 (Lyric poetry))]; τῶς μ.; well, but how.. ? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.28; τίνος μ. ἕνεκ; [prev. passage]; ποῦ μ.)]; to express surprise, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 142a)]; ἀλλὰ πότε μή; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 4.23.)]
IV with adversative force, especially after a negative, so that it is equivalent to μέντοι, νῦν ἐμὲ μὲν στυγέει.., ἔσται μὰν ὅτ᾽ ἄν.. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.370 - 373; οὐ μὴν ἄτιμοι.. τεθνήξομεν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1279)]; ἀνάγκη μὲν καὶ ταῦτ᾽ ἐπίστασθαι.., οὐδὲν μ. κωλύει κτλ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 268e, compare “Grg.” 493c, “R.” 529e, etc.; χαλεπῶς ἔχει ὑπὸ τραυμάτων, μᾶλλον μ. αὐτὸν αἱρεῖ τὸ νόσημα [prev. author] “Tht.” 142b)]; expressed more strongly by γε μ., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 7.18, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 1067 (_anapaest meter_), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 587, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.1.7, etc.; also οὐ μ... γε 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 270, “Th.” 538)]; οὐδὲ μ.[Refs ([prev. work] 809, “Ch.” 189)]; οὐ μ. οὐδέ nor yet indeed, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.3, 82, etc.; οὐ μὰν οὐδέ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.512; ἀλλ᾽ οὐ μὰν οὐδέ 23.441:—on οὐ μὴν ἀλλά, see at {ἀλλά} II.5.)]