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μέν used absolutely to express certainty, not followed by correlative δέ, indeed, of a truth, synonymous with μήν, as appears from the Ep. and Ion. form ἦ μέν in protestations and oaths (where Att. used ἦ μήν) , καί μοι ὄμοσσον, ἦ μ. μοι πρόφρων ἔπεσιν καὶ χερσὶν ἀρήξειν Il. 1.77, cf. 14.275; ἦ μέν τοι τάδε πάντα τελείεται Od. 14.160, cf. Il. 24.416; τοῦτον ἐξορκοῖ, ἦ μέν οἱ διηκονήσειν Hdt. 4.154, cf. 5.93, etc.: with neg., οὐ μὲν γάρ τι κακὸν βασιλευέμεν Od. 1.392, etc.; ὤμοσα, μὴ μὲν . . ἀναφῆναι 4.254, cf. Hdt. 2.118, 179; ἔξαρνος ἦν, μὴ μὲν ἀποκτεῖναι Id. 3.67, cf. 99: without neg., ἀνδρὸς μὲν τόδε σῆμα πάλαι κατατεθνηῶτος Il. 7.89: also in Trag., ἀκτὴ μὲν ἥδε τῆς περιρρύτου χθονός S. Ph. 1, cf. 159 (anap.), OC 44, E. Med. 676, 1129, etc.; καὶ μέν Il. 1.269, 9.632, etc.; οὐδὲ μὲν οὐδὲ . . 2.703, 12.212; γε μέν, cf. γε I.5.
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what is present or before one, Ἕκτορος ἥδε γυνή this is, or here is, the wife of Hector, Il. 6.460 : very freq. in Trag., ἀκτὴ μὲν ἥδε Λήμνου S. Ph. 1, cf. E. Tr. 4, Ion 5, Hel. 1, HF 4, Ba. 1 ; in Com., ἐγὼ σιωπῶ τῷδε; Ar. Ra. 1134, etc.; and in Prose, ὧν Θεόδωρος εἷς ὅδε Pl. Tht. 164e ; of what belongs to this world, Id. Phdr. 250a, Smp. 211c.
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land, country, once in Hom., εἴσατο δὲ χ., of Ithaca, Od. 13.352; πολύμηλος χ., of Libya, Pi. P. 9.7; εὔκαρπος χ., of Sicily, Id. N. 1.14; freq. in Trag., freq. without Art., χ. Ἀσιᾶτις, Φωκέων, A. Pers. 61 (anap.), 485; with Art., πᾶσαν τὴν Μυκηναίων χθόνα S. El. 423; τῆς περιρρύτου χ. Λήμνου Id. Ph. 1; τὴν Κορινθίαν χ. Id. OT 795; τὴν ἐμὴν χ. Id. Aj. 846; τῆς Ἀθηναίων χ. (paratrag.) Ephipp. 14.13; even of a city, τῆσδε δημοῦχοι χ. S. OC 1348; νόμους χθονός Id. Ant. 368 (lyr.), cf. OT 736, 939; Com., ὦ πόλι φίλη Κέκροπος, . . οὖθαρ ἀγαθῆς χθονός Ar. Fr. 110 (lyr.); ξένης ἀπὸ χ. Eup. 71 (paratrag.). (Cf. Skt. loc. kṣámi ‘on the ground’, Hittite tegan ‘ground’, Tocharian tkan- ‘place’, Ir. dū ‘place’ (acc. don, dat. dun).)