Help Rendering Greek Word

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Hello,

I am trying the decipher a Greek word in the following Latin text:

https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=jnZE_zao8_EC&hl=en&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA102

It is a single hand-written Greek word in the second paragraph. The first and last letters are a mystery to me.

Any help appreciated.

All the Best,
David

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οὗ μὴ λόγος

The Greek characters imitate handwriting and, at that time, included ligatures, which were progressively abandoned.

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It looks like a translation of this bit from De defectu oraculorum:

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg092.perseus-grc1:24

ἐπεὶ καὶ τὴν φύσιν ὁρῶμεν τὰ καθ᾽ ἕκαστα γένεσιν καὶ εἴδεσιν οἷον ἀγγείοις ἢ περικαρπίοις σπέρματος περιέχουσαν. οὐδὲν γὰρ ἐν ἀριθμῷ τῶν ὄντων ἔστιν, > οὗ γε μὴ λόγος > ὑπάρχει κοινός, οὐδὲ τυγχάνει τῆς τοιᾶσδε προσηγορίας ὃ μὴ κοινῶς ποιὸν ἢ ἰδίως ἐστίν. ὁ δὲ κόσμος οὐ λέγεται κοινῶς εἶναι ποιός: ἰδίως τοίνυν ποιός ἐστιν ἐκ διαφορᾶς τῆς πρὸς ἄλλα συγγενῆ καὶ ὁμοειδῆ γεγονὼς τοιοῦτος. εἰ γὰρ οὔτ᾽ ἄνθρωπος εἷς οὔτ᾽ ἵππος ἐν τῇ φύσει γέγονεν οὔτ᾽ ἄστρον οὔτε θεὸς οὔτε δαίμων, τί κωλύει μηδὲ κόσμον ἕνα τὴν φύσιν ἔχειν ἀλλ᾽ ἢ πλείονας; ὁ γὰρ λέγων, ὅτι καὶ γῆν μίαν ἔχει καὶ θάλατταν, ἐμφανὲς τι παρορᾷ τὸ τῶν ὁμοιομερῶν τήν τε γὰρ γῆν εἰς ὁμώνυμα μέρη καὶ τὴν θάλατταν ὡσαύτως διαιροῦμεν: τοῦ δὲ κόσμου μέρος οὐκέτι κόσμος ἀλλ᾽ ἐκ διαφόρων φύσεων συνέστηκε.

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Thank you guys. Gassendi uses a few on them, will keep track of them as I go through the text.

Awesome forum.
Dave

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This paper, The Ligatures of Early Printed Greek, is very useful.

https://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/view/11391/4169

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Mark,

Thank you for this paper - looks very useful.

All the Best,
David