473 The Subjunctive with μή presents the action as not desired, as unadvisable, or as forbidden. (Prohibitive.)
- a. In the first person (not to be separated from the hortative subjunctive,
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Mή ἀναμένωμεν ἄλλους let us not wait for οthers. AN. III. 1, 24. μὴ δῆτʼ ἀδικηθῶ let me not be wronged (in entreaty; cp. b). S. OK. 174.
- b. In the second person (aorist only):
Mή λίπῃς μʼ οὕτως μόνον leave me not thus alone. S. P. 470.
- c. In the third person (aorist only):
Μηδεὶς εἴπῃ let no one say. D. 9, 16. μηδενὶ τοῦτο παραστῇ let this occur to no one. L. 12, 62.