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|Definition=Ep. ὅσσος, η, ον, both forms in Hom. and Hes.; <b class="b3">ὅσσος</b> also in <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span>864</span> (lyr.); and in many dialects, e. g. Lesb., Alc.<span class="title">Oxy.</span>1788 <span class="title">Fr.</span>15 ii 18 (ὄσσος), Arg., <span class="title">IG</span>4.748.5 (Troezen, iv B. C.), Thess., ib. 9(2).517.19, al.; Central Cret. ὄζος <span class="title">GDI</span>5090 (Lyttos), al., and ὄττος ib.5000 (Gortyn): Relat. and indirect interrog. Adj.:—of Size, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">as great as, how great</b>; of Quantity, <b class="b2">as much as, how much</b> ; of Space, <b class="b2">as far as, how far</b>; of Time, <b class="b2">as long as, how long</b>; of Number, <b class="b2">as many as, how many</b>; of Sound, <b class="b2">as loud as, how loud</b>: correl. with <b class="b3">τόσος</b> (τόσσος), <b class="b3">τοσόσδε, τοσοῦτος</b>, in sense <b class="b2">as</b>, τόσσον χρόνον ὅσσον ἄνωγας <span class="bibl">Il.24.670</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Od.19.169</span>; τόσονδ', ὅσον . . <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">El.</span>286</span>; <b class="b3">τοσοῦτον</b> ὄχλον καὶ παρασκευήν, ὅσην . . <span class="bibl">D.4.35</span>: sts. with <b class="b3">πᾶς</b> or <b class="b3">ἅπας</b> as antec., χῶρον ἅπαντα ὅσσον . . <span class="bibl">Il.23.190</span>; ἐκ πασέων, ὅσσαι . . <span class="bibl">Od.4.723</span>; πάντα μάλ' ὅσσα . . <span class="bibl">Il.22.115</span> ; τοὺς πάντας... ὅσοι . . <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>976</span>, etc.; also ὅσων . . ψαύοιμι, πάντων τῶνδ' ἀεὶ μετειχέτην <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>1464</span>: with <b class="b3">ἴσος</b>, just so much <b class="b2">as</b>, ἐμοὶ δ' ἴσον τῇς χώρας μέτα, ὅσονπερ ὑμῖν <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ec.</span>174</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">D.21.44</span>: freq. without antec., τῆς ἦ τοι φωνὴ μὲν ὅση σκύλακος νεογιλῆς <span class="bibl">Od.12.86</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">10.113</span>, etc.; ἀσπίδες ὅσσαι ἄρισται <span class="bibl">Il.14.371</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">75</span>,<span class="bibl">18.512</span> ; agreeing with an antec. implied in an Adj., <b class="b3">γυναικείας ἀρετῆς, ὅσαι . .</b> the virtue <b class="b2">of all the women, who . .</b>, <span class="bibl">Th.2.45</span>, cf. ὅς <span class="bibl">B. 1.1</span> : the Subst. freq. precedes, where we put it in the Relat. clause, <b class="b3">οὐδέ τι οἶδε πένθεος</b> (about the woe), ὅσσον ὄρωρε <span class="bibl">Il.11.658</span> ; <b class="b3">ὁρᾷς . . τὴν θεῶν ἰσχύν, ὅση [ἐστί]</b>; <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>118</span> ; <b class="b3">ὦ Ζεῦ... τὸ χρῆμα τῶν κόπων ὅσον</b>! <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ra.</span>1278</span>; <b class="b3">τὸ χρῆμα τῶν νυκτῶν ὅσον· ἀπέραντον</b>! <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Nu.</span>2</span>: and sts. it is attracted to the case of the antec., <b class="b3">εὐτραφέστατον πωμάτων ὅσων ἵησιν</b> (for <b class="b3">ὅσα</b>) <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Th.</span>309</span> (lyr.); joined with οἷος, ὅσσος ἔην οἷός τε <span class="bibl">Il.24.630</span> ; so ὅσσοι τε καὶ οἵτινες <span class="bibl">Od.16.236</span>: repeated in the same clause, <b class="b3">τὸ δὲ ὅσον μέτρον ὅσοις [μειγνύμενον]</b> the quantities of the first ingredient and the others, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ti.</span>68b</span> ; γαίης ὅσσης ὅσσον ἔχει μόριον <span class="title">AP</span>7.740 (Leon.) : perh. sts. folld. by a partic. for a finite Verb, <b class="b3">ὅσοι συμπαρεπόμενοι</b> (s. v. l.) <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Eq.</span>11.12</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">HG</span>6.1.10</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> with a partit. gen. in the principal clause, Τρώων θάνον ὅσσοι ἄριστοι <span class="bibl">Il. 12.13</span>; ἄριστοι ἵππων, ὅσσοι ἔασιν <span class="bibl">5.267</span> ; Περσῶν ὅσοιπερ <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span>441</span>; <b class="b3">οὔ τις . . ὀνόσσεται, ὅσσοι Ἀχαιοί</b> of all the Achaeans, <span class="bibl">Il.9.55</span>; <b class="b3">[τῶν στρατειῶν] ὅσαι τε καὶ μὴ ἐπικίνδυνοι</b> which are and which are not... <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>467d</span>; on <b class="b3">τῶν ὅσοι</b>, v. ὁ, ἡ, τό A. 111. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> of Time, <b class="b3">ὅσαι ἡμέραι, ὅσα ἔτη</b>, etc., v. [[ὁσημέραι]]. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> with τις, in indirect questions, ἰδώμεθα . . ὅσσος τις χρυσὸς . . ἔνεστιν <span class="bibl">Od.10.45</span>; ὅσον τι δένδρον . . γίνεται <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.193</span>; <b class="b3">ὅσον τι ἐστί</b> ib.<span class="bibl">185</span> ; ὅσοι τινὲς ἐόντες . . <span class="bibl">Id.7.102</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">5</span> with acc. of extent, <b class="b3">λίμνη . . μέγαθος, ὅσηπερ ἡ ἐν Δήλῳ</b> in size <b class="b2">as large as</b> that in Delos, <span class="bibl">Id.2.170</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">175</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>423b</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">6</span> with Adjs. expressing Quantity, etc., both words being put in the same case, <b class="b3">[πίθηκοι] ἄφθονοι ὅσοι . . γίνονται</b>, i. e. in amazing numbers, <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.194</span> ; <b class="b3">ὄχλος ὑπερφυὴς ὅσος</b> prodigiously large, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pl.</span>750</span> ; χρήματα θαυμαστὰ ὅσα <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Hp.Ma.</span>282c</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Halc.</span>5</span>, etc. ; <b class="b3">ἀπλάτων ὅσων, ἀμύθητα ὅσα</b>, Phld.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1.3,91 S., cf. <span class="bibl">Corn.<span class="title">ND</span>9</span> ; ὀλίγους ὅσους τῶν κοφίνων <span class="bibl">Luc. <span class="title">Alex.</span>1</span> ; ἐτόλμησαν ἐπιφύεσθαι ἡμεῖν πλεῖστοι ὅσοι <span class="title">SIG</span>888.65 (Thrace, iii A. D.); μετὰ ἱδρῶτος θαυμαστοῦ ὅσου <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>350d</span> ; διὰ μυρίων ὅσων Longin.1.1: freq. in adverbial construction, θαυμαστὸν ὅσον ἐπιδιδόντες <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Tht.</span>150d</span> ; θ. ὅσον διαφέρει <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">La.</span>184c</span>; ἀμηχάνῳ δὴ ὅσῳ πλείονι <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">R.</span>588a</span> ; τυτθὸν ὅσσον ἄπωθεν <span class="bibl">Theoc.1.45</span> ; βαιὸν ὅσον παραβάς <span class="title">AP</span>12.227 (Strat.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">7</span> with Sup., <b class="b3">ὅσας ἂν πλείστας δύνωνται καταστρέφεσθαι τῶν πολίων</b> the most they possibly could... <span class="bibl">Hdt.6.44</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Th.7.21</span> ; also <b class="b3">ὅσον τάχος</b> <b class="b2">as</b> quickly <b class="b2">as possible</b>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Th.</span> 727</span> (more freq. <b class="b3">ὅσον τάχιστα</b>, v. infr. IV. <span class="bibl">4</span>); <b class="b3">ὅσον σθένος</b> with all possible strength, <span class="bibl">Theoc.1.42</span>, <span class="bibl">A.R.2.589</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">8</span> c. inf., <b class="b2">so much as is enough for . .</b>, <b class="b3">ὅσον ἀποζῆν</b> <b class="b2">enough to</b> live off, <span class="bibl">Th.1.2</span> ; ἐλείπετο τῆς νυκτὸς ὅσον . . διελθεῖν τὸ πεδίον <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">An.</span>4.1.5</span>; <b class="b3">εὐδαιμονίας τοσοῦτον, ὅσον δοκεῖν</b> so much <b class="b2">as is enough for</b> appearance, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>1191</span> (lyr.), cf. <span class="bibl">Th.3.49</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>416e</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> for <b class="b3">ὅτι τοσοῦτος</b> (v. οἷος <span class="bibl">11.2</span>,<span class="bibl">3</span>, ὅς B. IV. 3), <span class="bibl">Od.4.75</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hel.</span>74</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> folld. by Particles: </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">1</span> <b class="b3">ὅσος ἄν</b> (κεν) <b class="b2">how great (many) soever</b>, with subj., <span class="bibl">Il.3.66</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b3">ὅσος δή</b> <b class="b2">of such and such a size</b> or <b class="b2">number</b> (but in Hom. merely strengthd. for <b class="b3">ὅσος</b>, <span class="bibl">Od.15.487</span>, al.), <b class="b3">κήρυγμα ἐποιήσατο... ζημίην τοῦτον ὀφείλειν, ὅσην δὴ εἴπας</b> naming <b class="b2">such and such an amount</b>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.52</span> ; <b class="b3">ἐπέταξε τοῖσι . . ἔθνεσι γυναῖκας . . κατιστάναι, ὅσας δὴ ἐπιτάσσων</b> ordering <b class="b2">such and such a number</b>, ib.<span class="bibl">159</span> ; <b class="b3">παρεσκευάζοντο ἐπὶ μισθῷ ὅσῳ δή</b> for payment <b class="b2">of a certain amount</b>, <span class="bibl">Id.1.160</span> ; σιτία παρακαταλιπόντες ὅσων δὴ μηνῶν <span class="bibl">Id.4.151</span> ; so ὅσος δή κοτε <span class="bibl">Id.1.157</span>; <b class="b3">ὁσοσδηποτοῦν</b>, in pl., <b class="b2">any number whatsoever</b>, <span class="bibl">Euc.9.9</span>, al., <span class="bibl">Agatharch.34</span>; ὁσοσδηοῦν <b class="b2">however large</b>, <span class="bibl">Jul.<span class="title">Or.</span>3.119a</span> ; ὅσος δή τις <span class="bibl">D.H.2.45</span>, <span class="bibl">4.60</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> <b class="b3">ὁσοσοῦν</b>, Ion. <b class="b3">-ῶν</b>, <b class="b2">ever so small</b>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.199</span> : in pl., <b class="b2">however many</b>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1265a41</span> ; v. infr. IV. <span class="bibl">6</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> <b class="b3">ὅσοσπερ</b>, <b class="b2">precisely as great as</b>, τοῦ μὲν χειμῶνός ἐστι [ὁ Ἴστρος] ὅσοσπέρ ἐστι <b class="b2">of its normal size</b>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.50</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">2.170</span>, etc.: in pl., <b class="b2">as many as</b>, <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Th.</span>475</span>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span> 423</span>,<span class="bibl">441</span> ; ἔθνεα πάντα ὅσαπερ ἦγε <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.87</span> ; ἅπαντα... ὅσαπέρ γ' ἔφασκον, κἄτι πολλῷ πλείονα <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">V.</span>806</span>: but <b class="b3">ὅσοσπερ</b> can freq. hardly be distd. from <b class="b3">ὅσος</b>, v. supr. <span class="bibl">1.2</span>, <span class="bibl">5</span>, infr. IV. <span class="bibl">1</span>, <span class="bibl">3</span>, and <span class="bibl">7</span>; and this is still more the case with Ep. <b class="b3">ὅσος τε</b> (cf. [[ὅστε]]), <span class="bibl">Od.10.113</span>, al. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">IV</span> Adverbial usages of <b class="b3">ὅσον</b> and <b class="b3">ὅσα</b>: </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">1</span> <b class="b2">so far as, so much as</b>, οὐ μέντοι ἐγὼ τόσον αἴτιός εἰμι, ὅσσον οἱ ἄλλοι <span class="bibl">Il.21.371</span>: c. inf., <b class="b3">ὅσον αὔξειν ἢ καθαιρεῖν</b> <b class="b2">so far as</b> to... <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1376a34</span> : in parenthesis, c. inf., <b class="b3">ὅσον γέ μ' εἰδέναι</b> <b class="b2">as far as</b> I know, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Nu.</span>1252</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Tht.</span>145a</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">D.H.2.59</span> ; so <b class="b3">μακραίων γ', ὅσ' ἀπεικάσαι</b> cj. in <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span> 152</span> (lyr.); ὅσον ἐς Ἑλλάδα γλῶσσαν ἀπὸ Λατίνης μεταβαλεῖν <span class="bibl">App. <span class="title">BC</span>4.11</span> : but more freq. c. ind., ὅσσον ἔγωγε γιγνώσκω <span class="bibl">Il.13.222</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">20.360</span> ; so ὅσονπερ ἂν σθένω <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">El.</span>946</span> ; ὅσα γε . . ἦν εἰκάσαι <span class="bibl">Th.8.46</span>; ὅσον δυνατόν <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Smp.</span>196d</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">ὅσον καθ' ἕν' ἄνδρα</b> <b class="b2">so far as</b> was in one man's power, <span class="bibl">D.18.153</span> ; ὅσον τὸ σὸν μέρος <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>1509</span>: c. gen., ὅσον γε δυνάμεως παρ' ἐμοί ἐστι <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Cra.</span>422c</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>1239</span> ; also ὅσα ἐγὼ μέμνημαι <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Mem.</span>2.1.21</span> ; οἱ πατέρες, ὅσα ἄνθρωποι, οὐκ ἀμαθεῖς ἔσονται <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>467c</span> ; <b class="b3">ὅσα γε τἀνθρώπεια</b> <b class="b2">humanly</b> speaking, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Cri.</span> 47a</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">b</span> <b class="b2">how far, how much</b>, ἴστε γὰρ ὅσσον ἐμοὶ ἀρετῇ περιβάλλετον ἵπποι <span class="bibl">Il.23.276</span> ; μαθήσεται ὅσον τό τ' ἄρχειν καὶ τὸ δουλεύειν δίχα <span class="bibl">A. <span class="title">Pr.</span>927</span> : with Adjs., <b class="b2">how</b>, <b class="b3">ὅσον</b> or <b class="b3">ὅσσον . . μέγ' ὄνειαρ</b>, <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Op.</span>41</span>,<span class="bibl">346</span> ; ὅσ' ἤπειρος πολλὰ τρέφει <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Th.</span>582</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">only so far as, only just</b>, ὅσον ἐς Σκαιάς τε πύλας καὶ φηγὸν ἵκανεν <span class="bibl">Il.9.354</span> ; ὅσον ἐκ Φοινίκης ἐς Κρήτην <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.45</span> ; φιλοσοφίας, ὅσον παιδείας χάριν, μετέχειν <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Grg.</span> 485a</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">R.</span>403d</span> ; οὐδὲν ἡδέως ποιεῖ γὰρ οὗτος, ἀλλ' ὅσον νόμου χάριν <span class="bibl">Diph.43.14</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Metaph.</span>1076a27</span>, al. ; <b class="b3">ὅσον καὶ ἀπὸ βοῆς ἕνεκα</b> <b class="b3">ὠργίζετο</b>, opp. <b class="b3">τῷ ἀληθεῖ ἐχαλέπαινον</b>, <span class="bibl">Th.8.92</span> : so, more fully, ὅσον μοῦνον <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.20</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Th.6.105</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>607a</span>, etc.; or μόνον ὅσον <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Lg.</span> 778c</span> ; ἐγὼ μέν μιν οὐκ εἶδον εἰ μὴ ὅσον γραφῇ <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.73</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">An.</span>7.3.20</span>; σιτάρια μικρὰ προσφέρων οἴνου θ' ὅσον ὀσμήν <span class="bibl">Philem.98.3</span> ; <b class="b3">τί οὐκ ἀπεκοιμήθημεν ὅ. ὅ. στίλην</b>; <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">V.</span>213</span> ; ἢ ὅσον ὅσσον στιγμή <span class="title">AP</span>7.472 (Leon.), cf. <span class="bibl">5.254</span> (Paul. Sil.); ἐπαναγαγεῖν ὅ. ὅ. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ev.Luc.</span>5.3</span> (cod. D, v.l. [[ὀλίγον]]); <b class="b3">ὅσον· ὀλίγον, ὅσον ὅσον δέ, ὀλίγον ὀλίγον</b>, Hsch.; <b class="b3">παρ' ὅσον ἧττον</b> <b class="b2">a little</b> less, <span class="bibl">D.T.631.17</span> (= <b class="b3">παρ' ὀλίγον ἧττον</b>, Sch.) ; <b class="b3">οὐδ' ὅσον</b> <b class="b2">not even</b>, οὐδ' ὅ. ἀττάραγόν τυ δεδοίκαμες <span class="bibl">Call.<span class="title">Epigr.</span>47.9</span>: abs., <b class="b2">not the least mite</b>, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ap.</span>37</span>, <span class="bibl">A.R.2.181</span>,<span class="bibl">190</span> ; οὐδέ περ ὅσσον <span class="bibl">Id.3.519</span> ; οὐδ' ὅσον ὅσσον Philet.7 ; cf. IV. 5. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> of size or distance, <b class="b3">ὅσον τε</b> <b class="b2">about, nearly</b>, <b class="b3">ὅσον τ' ὄργυιαν, ὅσον τε πυγούσιον</b>, <span class="bibl">Od.9.325</span>, <span class="bibl">10.517</span> ; ὅσον τ' ἐπὶ ἥμισυ <span class="bibl">13.114</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Il.10.351</span> ; ὅσον τε δέκα στάδια <span class="bibl">Hdt.9.57</span>; ξύλα ὅσον τε διπήχεα <span class="bibl">Id.2.96</span>, cf.<span class="bibl">78</span> ; so ὅσονπερ τρία στάδια <span class="bibl">Id.9.51</span>; in Att. <b class="b3">ὅσον</b> alone, ὅσον δύο πλέθρα <span class="bibl">Th.7.38</span> ; ὅσον δύ' ἢ τρία στάδια <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phdr.</span>229c</span> ; ὅσον παρασάγγην <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>3.3.28</span> ; so of other measurements, ὅσον τριχοίνικον ἄρτον <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">An.</span>7.3.23</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> with Adjs. of Quality or Degree, mostly with Comp., αἴθ', ὅσον ἥσσων εἰμί, τόσον σέο φέρτερος εἴην <span class="bibl">Il.16.722</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">1.186</span> ; <b class="b3">ὅσσον βασιλεύτερός εἰμι</b> <b class="b2">so far as, inasmuch as</b> I am a greater king, <span class="bibl">9.160</span> : and with Sup., γνώσετ'... ὅσον εἰμὶ θεῶν κάρτιστος <span class="bibl">8.17</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">1.516</span>, etc.: with Advs., ὅσον τάχιστα <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ch.</span>772</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ant.</span>1103</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">El.</span>1433</span> ; ὅσον μάλιστα <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span> 524</span> ; ὅσα ἐδύνατο μ. <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.185</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">5</span> with negs., <b class="b3">ὅσον οὐ</b> or <b class="b3">ὁσονού</b> <b class="b2">just not, all but</b> (cf. IV. <span class="bibl">2</span>), <span class="bibl">Th.1.36</span>,<span class="bibl">5.59</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">ὅσον οὐκ ἤδη</b> <b class="b2">almost</b> immediately, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hec.</span>141</span> (anap.), <span class="bibl">Th.8.96</span> ; later ὅσον ἤδη <span class="bibl">Plb.2.4.4</span>, <span class="bibl">8.34.8</span>; ὅσον οὔπω <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ba.</span>1076</span>, <span class="bibl">Th.4.125</span>,<span class="bibl">6.34</span>: <b class="b3">ὅσον οὐδέπω</b> with fut., <b class="b2">presently, in a minute</b>, <span class="bibl">Nicom.<span class="title">Ar.</span>1.8</span>, <span class="bibl">Hld.2.31</span>, al. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">b</span> οὐχ ὅσον οὐκ ἠμύναντο, ἀλλ' οὐδ' ἐσώθησαν <b class="b2">not only not... but not even</b>, <span class="bibl">Th.4.62</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">c</span> <b class="b3">ὅσον μή</b> <b class="b2">so far as not, save</b> or <b class="b2">except so far as</b>, <b class="b3">καλός τε κἀγαθὸς τὴν φύσιν, ὅσον μὴ ὑβριστής</b> (sic leg.) <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Euthd.</span>273a</span> ; <b class="b3">ὅσον γ' ἂν αὐτὸς μὴ ποτιψαύων</b> <b class="b2">so far as I can</b> without touching... <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Tr.</span>1214</span> ; ὅσον μὴ χερσὶ καίνων <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">OT</span>347</span>; ὅσα μή <span class="bibl">Th.1.111</span>,<span class="bibl">4.16</span>: sts. with a finite Verb, πείθεσθαι... ὅσον ἂν μὴ ἀνάγκη ᾖ <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Oec.</span>21.4</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phd.</span> 83a</span> ; cf. ὅ τι <span class="bibl">11</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">6</span> <b class="b3">ὁσονοῦν</b>, Ion. <b class="b3">ὁσονῶν</b>, <b class="b2">ever so little</b>, εἰ τοίνυν ἐχιόνιζε καὶ ὁσονῶν <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.22</span> ; so ἐφ' ὁσονοῦν <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>6.7.5</span>, <span class="bibl">Iamb.<span class="title">in Nic.</span> p.14</span> P. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">7</span> <b class="b3">ὅσα</b> and <b class="b3">ὅσαπερ</b>, just like [[ὡς, ὥσπερ]], <b class="b2">as</b>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>1.5.12</span>, Luc.<span class="title">VH</span>1.24, etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">V</span> <b class="b3">ὅσῳ, ὅσῳπερ</b>, <b class="b2">by how much</b>, freq. with Comp., ὅσῳ πλέον ἥμισυ παντός <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Op.</span>40</span> ; ὅσῳ κρείττω <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Fr.</span>488.3</span> ; ὅσῳ ἂν πλεονάκις εἰσίῃς <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>1.3.14</span>: with Sup., διέδεξε, ὅσῳ ἐστὶ τοῦτο ἄριστον <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.82</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ant.</span>59</span>, <span class="bibl">1050</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b3">ὅσῳ</b> with Comp. when folld. by another Comp. with <b class="b3">τοσούτῳ</b>, <b class="b2">the more... so much the more</b>... <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>7.5.80</span> ; ὅ. μᾶλλον πιστεύω, τοσούτῳ μᾶλλον ἀπορῶ <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span> 368b</span> : with <b class="b3">τοσούτῳ</b> omitted, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Nu.</span>1419</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>792</span> : sts. a Sup. replaces the Comp., ὅσῳ μάλιστα ἐλεύθεροι... τοσούτῳ καὶ θρασύτατα <span class="bibl">Th.8.84</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Lys.7.39</span> ; <b class="b3">ὅσῳ</b> alone, <b class="b3">ἑωυτοὺς δὲ γενέσθαι τοσούτῳ... ἀμείνονας, ὅσῳ</b> . . <span class="bibl">Hdt.6.137</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">5.49</span>, <span class="bibl">8.13</span> ; νιν τῶνδε πλεῖστον ᾤκτισα... ὅσῳπερ καὶ φρονεῖν οἶδεν μόνη <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Tr.</span>313</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">OC</span>743</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">VI</span> <b class="b3">ἐς ὅσον, ἐφ' ὅσον, καθ' ὅσον</b> are freq. used much like [[ὅσον, εἰς ὅσον σθένω]] <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ph.</span> 1403</span> (troch.); ἐφ' ὅσον ἐδύνατο <span class="bibl">Th.1.4</span> ; εἰς ὅσον δύνανται <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>607a</span> ; καθ' ὅσον δυνατόν <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ti.</span>51b</span> ; <b class="b3">ἐφ' ὅσον ἐστὶν δυνατός</b> <b class="b2">as far as</b> he can, <span class="title">IG</span>22.903.11 (ii B.C.); later of Time, ἐς ὅσον δύναμίς μοι ὑπῆρχεν <b class="b2">as long as .</b>. POxy.899.8 (ii/iii A.D.); <b class="b3">ἐφ' ὅσον περιῆσαν</b> <b class="b2">as long as</b> they lived, Mitteis <span class="title">Chr.</span>31i23 (ii B.C.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> ἐν ὅσῳ <b class="b2">while</b>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pax</span>943</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl">Th.8.87</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">VII</span> no Adv. <b class="b3">ὅσως</b> occurs.</span>
|Definition=Ep. ὅσσος, η, ον, both forms in Hom. and Hes.; <b class="b3">ὅσσος</b> also in <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span>864</span> (lyr.); and in many dialects, e. g. Lesb., Alc.<span class="title">Oxy.</span>1788 <span class="title">Fr.</span>15 ii 18 (ὄσσος), Arg., <span class="title">IG</span>4.748.5 (Troezen, iv B. C.), Thess., ib. 9(2).517.19, al.; Central Cret. ὄζος <span class="title">GDI</span>5090 (Lyttos), al., and ὄττος ib.5000 (Gortyn): Relat. and indirect interrog. Adj.:—of Size, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">as great as, how great</b>; of Quantity, <b class="b2">as much as, how much</b> ; of Space, <b class="b2">as far as, how far</b>; of Time, <b class="b2">as long as, how long</b>; of Number, <b class="b2">as many as, how many</b>; of Sound, <b class="b2">as loud as, how loud</b>: correl. with <b class="b3">τόσος</b> (τόσσος), <b class="b3">τοσόσδε, τοσοῦτος</b>, in sense <b class="b2">as</b>, τόσσον χρόνον ὅσσον ἄνωγας <span class="bibl">Il.24.670</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Od.19.169</span>; τόσονδ', ὅσον . . <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">El.</span>286</span>; <b class="b3">τοσοῦτον</b> ὄχλον καὶ παρασκευήν, ὅσην . . <span class="bibl">D.4.35</span>: sts. with <b class="b3">πᾶς</b> or <b class="b3">ἅπας</b> as antec., χῶρον ἅπαντα ὅσσον . . <span class="bibl">Il.23.190</span>; ἐκ πασέων, ὅσσαι . . <span class="bibl">Od.4.723</span>; πάντα μάλ' ὅσσα . . <span class="bibl">Il.22.115</span> ; τοὺς πάντας... ὅσοι . . <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>976</span>, etc.; also ὅσων . . ψαύοιμι, πάντων τῶνδ' ἀεὶ μετειχέτην <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>1464</span>: with <b class="b3">ἴσος</b>, just so much <b class="b2">as</b>, ἐμοὶ δ' ἴσον τῇς χώρας μέτα, ὅσονπερ ὑμῖν <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ec.</span>174</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">D.21.44</span>: freq. without antec., τῆς ἦ τοι φωνὴ μὲν ὅση σκύλακος νεογιλῆς <span class="bibl">Od.12.86</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">10.113</span>, etc.; ἀσπίδες ὅσσαι ἄρισται <span class="bibl">Il.14.371</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">75</span>,<span class="bibl">18.512</span> ; agreeing with an antec. implied in an Adj., <b class="b3">γυναικείας ἀρετῆς, ὅσαι . .</b> the virtue <b class="b2">of all the women, who . .</b>, <span class="bibl">Th.2.45</span>, cf. ὅς <span class="bibl">B. 1.1</span> : the Subst. freq. precedes, where we put it in the Relat. clause, <b class="b3">οὐδέ τι οἶδε πένθεος</b> (about the woe), ὅσσον ὄρωρε <span class="bibl">Il.11.658</span> ; <b class="b3">ὁρᾷς . . τὴν θεῶν ἰσχύν, ὅση [ἐστί]</b>; <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>118</span> ; <b class="b3">ὦ Ζεῦ... τὸ χρῆμα τῶν κόπων ὅσον</b>! <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ra.</span>1278</span>; <b class="b3">τὸ χρῆμα τῶν νυκτῶν ὅσον· ἀπέραντον</b>! <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Nu.</span>2</span>: and sts. it is attracted to the case of the antec., <b class="b3">εὐτραφέστατον πωμάτων ὅσων ἵησιν</b> (for <b class="b3">ὅσα</b>) <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Th.</span>309</span> (lyr.); joined with οἷος, ὅσσος ἔην οἷός τε <span class="bibl">Il.24.630</span> ; so ὅσσοι τε καὶ οἵτινες <span class="bibl">Od.16.236</span>: repeated in the same clause, <b class="b3">τὸ δὲ ὅσον μέτρον ὅσοις [μειγνύμενον]</b> the quantities of the first ingredient and the others, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ti.</span>68b</span> ; γαίης ὅσσης ὅσσον ἔχει μόριον <span class="title">AP</span>7.740 (Leon.) : perh. sts. folld. by a partic. for a finite Verb, <b class="b3">ὅσοι συμπαρεπόμενοι</b> (s. v. l.) <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Eq.</span>11.12</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">HG</span>6.1.10</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> with a partit. gen. in the principal clause, Τρώων θάνον ὅσσοι ἄριστοι <span class="bibl">Il. 12.13</span>; ἄριστοι ἵππων, ὅσσοι ἔασιν <span class="bibl">5.267</span> ; Περσῶν ὅσοιπερ <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span>441</span>; <b class="b3">οὔ τις . . ὀνόσσεται, ὅσσοι Ἀχαιοί</b> of all the Achaeans, <span class="bibl">Il.9.55</span>; <b class="b3">[τῶν στρατειῶν] ὅσαι τε καὶ μὴ ἐπικίνδυνοι</b> which are and which are not... <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>467d</span>; on <b class="b3">τῶν ὅσοι</b>, v. ὁ, ἡ, τό A. 111. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> of Time, <b class="b3">ὅσαι ἡμέραι, ὅσα ἔτη</b>, etc., v. [[ὁσημέραι]]. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> with τις, in indirect questions, ἰδώμεθα . . ὅσσος τις χρυσὸς . . ἔνεστιν <span class="bibl">Od.10.45</span>; ὅσον τι δένδρον . . γίνεται <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.193</span>; <b class="b3">ὅσον τι ἐστί</b> ib.<span class="bibl">185</span> ; ὅσοι τινὲς ἐόντες . . <span class="bibl">Id.7.102</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">5</span> with acc. of extent, <b class="b3">λίμνη . . μέγαθος, ὅσηπερ ἡ ἐν Δήλῳ</b> in size <b class="b2">as large as</b> that in Delos, <span class="bibl">Id.2.170</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">175</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>423b</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">6</span> with Adjs. expressing Quantity, etc., both words being put in the same case, <b class="b3">[πίθηκοι] ἄφθονοι ὅσοι . . γίνονται</b>, i. e. in amazing numbers, <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.194</span> ; <b class="b3">ὄχλος ὑπερφυὴς ὅσος</b> prodigiously large, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pl.</span>750</span> ; χρήματα θαυμαστὰ ὅσα <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Hp.Ma.</span>282c</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Halc.</span>5</span>, etc. ; <b class="b3">ἀπλάτων ὅσων, ἀμύθητα ὅσα</b>, Phld.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1.3,91 S., cf. <span class="bibl">Corn.<span class="title">ND</span>9</span> ; ὀλίγους ὅσους τῶν κοφίνων <span class="bibl">Luc. <span class="title">Alex.</span>1</span> ; ἐτόλμησαν ἐπιφύεσθαι ἡμεῖν πλεῖστοι ὅσοι <span class="title">SIG</span>888.65 (Thrace, iii A. D.); μετὰ ἱδρῶτος θαυμαστοῦ ὅσου <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>350d</span> ; διὰ μυρίων ὅσων Longin.1.1: freq. in adverbial construction, θαυμαστὸν ὅσον ἐπιδιδόντες <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Tht.</span>150d</span> ; θ. ὅσον διαφέρει <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">La.</span>184c</span>; ἀμηχάνῳ δὴ ὅσῳ πλείονι <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">R.</span>588a</span> ; τυτθὸν ὅσσον ἄπωθεν <span class="bibl">Theoc.1.45</span> ; βαιὸν ὅσον παραβάς <span class="title">AP</span>12.227 (Strat.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">7</span> with Sup., <b class="b3">ὅσας ἂν πλείστας δύνωνται καταστρέφεσθαι τῶν πολίων</b> the most they possibly could... <span class="bibl">Hdt.6.44</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Th.7.21</span> ; also <b class="b3">ὅσον τάχος</b> <b class="b2">as</b> quickly <b class="b2">as possible</b>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Th.</span> 727</span> (more freq. <b class="b3">ὅσον τάχιστα</b>, v. infr. IV. <span class="bibl">4</span>); <b class="b3">ὅσον σθένος</b> with all possible strength, <span class="bibl">Theoc.1.42</span>, <span class="bibl">A.R.2.589</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">8</span> c. inf., <b class="b2">so much as is enough for . .</b>, <b class="b3">ὅσον ἀποζῆν</b> <b class="b2">enough to</b> live off, <span class="bibl">Th.1.2</span> ; ἐλείπετο τῆς νυκτὸς ὅσον . . διελθεῖν τὸ πεδίον <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">An.</span>4.1.5</span>; <b class="b3">εὐδαιμονίας τοσοῦτον, ὅσον δοκεῖν</b> so much <b class="b2">as is enough for</b> appearance, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>1191</span> (lyr.), cf. <span class="bibl">Th.3.49</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>416e</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> for <b class="b3">ὅτι τοσοῦτος</b> (v. οἷος <span class="bibl">11.2</span>,<span class="bibl">3</span>, ὅς B. IV. 3), <span class="bibl">Od.4.75</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hel.</span>74</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> folld. by Particles: </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">1</span> <b class="b3">ὅσος ἄν</b> (κεν) <b class="b2">how great (many) soever</b>, with subj., <span class="bibl">Il.3.66</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b3">ὅσος δή</b> <b class="b2">of such and such a size</b> or <b class="b2">number</b> (but in Hom. merely strengthd. for <b class="b3">ὅσος</b>, <span class="bibl">Od.15.487</span>, al.), <b class="b3">κήρυγμα ἐποιήσατο... ζημίην τοῦτον ὀφείλειν, ὅσην δὴ εἴπας</b> naming <b class="b2">such and such an amount</b>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.52</span> ; <b class="b3">ἐπέταξε τοῖσι . . ἔθνεσι γυναῖκας . . κατιστάναι, ὅσας δὴ ἐπιτάσσων</b> ordering <b class="b2">such and such a number</b>, ib.<span class="bibl">159</span> ; <b class="b3">παρεσκευάζοντο ἐπὶ μισθῷ ὅσῳ δή</b> for payment <b class="b2">of a certain amount</b>, <span class="bibl">Id.1.160</span> ; σιτία παρακαταλιπόντες ὅσων δὴ μηνῶν <span class="bibl">Id.4.151</span> ; so ὅσος δή κοτε <span class="bibl">Id.1.157</span>; <b class="b3">ὁσοσδηποτοῦν</b>, in pl., <b class="b2">any number whatsoever</b>, <span class="bibl">Euc.9.9</span>, al., <span class="bibl">Agatharch.34</span>; ὁσοσδηοῦν <b class="b2">however large</b>, <span class="bibl">Jul.<span class="title">Or.</span>3.119a</span> ; ὅσος δή τις <span class="bibl">D.H.2.45</span>, <span class="bibl">4.60</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> <b class="b3">ὁσοσοῦν</b>, Ion. <b class="b3">-ῶν</b>, <b class="b2">ever so small</b>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.199</span> : in pl., <b class="b2">however many</b>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1265a41</span> ; v. infr. IV. <span class="bibl">6</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> <b class="b3">ὅσοσπερ</b>, <b class="b2">precisely as great as</b>, τοῦ μὲν χειμῶνός ἐστι [ὁ Ἴστρος] ὅσοσπέρ ἐστι <b class="b2">of its normal size</b>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.50</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">2.170</span>, etc.: in pl., <b class="b2">as many as</b>, <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Th.</span>475</span>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span> 423</span>,<span class="bibl">441</span> ; ἔθνεα πάντα ὅσαπερ ἦγε <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.87</span> ; ἅπαντα... ὅσαπέρ γ' ἔφασκον, κἄτι πολλῷ πλείονα <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">V.</span>806</span>: but <b class="b3">ὅσοσπερ</b> can freq. hardly be distd. from <b class="b3">ὅσος</b>, v. supr. <span class="bibl">1.2</span>, <span class="bibl">5</span>, infr. IV. <span class="bibl">1</span>, <span class="bibl">3</span>, and <span class="bibl">7</span>; and this is still more the case with Ep. <b class="b3">ὅσος τε</b> (cf. [[ὅστε]]), <span class="bibl">Od.10.113</span>, al. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">IV</span> Adverbial usages of <b class="b3">ὅσον</b> and <b class="b3">ὅσα</b>: </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">1</span> <b class="b2">so far as, so much as</b>, οὐ μέντοι ἐγὼ τόσον αἴτιός εἰμι, ὅσσον οἱ ἄλλοι <span class="bibl">Il.21.371</span>: c. inf., <b class="b3">ὅσον αὔξειν ἢ καθαιρεῖν</b> <b class="b2">so far as</b> to... <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1376a34</span> : in parenthesis, c. inf., <b class="b3">ὅσον γέ μ' εἰδέναι</b> <b class="b2">as far as</b> I know, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Nu.</span>1252</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Tht.</span>145a</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">D.H.2.59</span> ; so <b class="b3">μακραίων γ', ὅσ' ἀπεικάσαι</b> cj. in <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span> 152</span> (lyr.); ὅσον ἐς Ἑλλάδα γλῶσσαν ἀπὸ Λατίνης μεταβαλεῖν <span class="bibl">App. <span class="title">BC</span>4.11</span> : but more freq. c. ind., ὅσσον ἔγωγε γιγνώσκω <span class="bibl">Il.13.222</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">20.360</span> ; so ὅσονπερ ἂν σθένω <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">El.</span>946</span> ; ὅσα γε . . ἦν εἰκάσαι <span class="bibl">Th.8.46</span>; ὅσον δυνατόν <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Smp.</span>196d</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">ὅσον καθ' ἕν' ἄνδρα</b> <b class="b2">so far as</b> was in one man's power, <span class="bibl">D.18.153</span> ; ὅσον τὸ σὸν μέρος <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>1509</span>: c. gen., ὅσον γε δυνάμεως παρ' ἐμοί ἐστι <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Cra.</span>422c</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>1239</span> ; also ὅσα ἐγὼ μέμνημαι <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Mem.</span>2.1.21</span> ; οἱ πατέρες, ὅσα ἄνθρωποι, οὐκ ἀμαθεῖς ἔσονται <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>467c</span> ; <b class="b3">ὅσα γε τἀνθρώπεια</b> <b class="b2">humanly</b> speaking, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Cri.</span> 47a</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">b</span> <b class="b2">how far, how much</b>, ἴστε γὰρ ὅσσον ἐμοὶ ἀρετῇ περιβάλλετον ἵπποι <span class="bibl">Il.23.276</span> ; μαθήσεται ὅσον τό τ' ἄρχειν καὶ τὸ δουλεύειν δίχα <span class="bibl">A. <span class="title">Pr.</span>927</span> : with Adjs., <b class="b2">how</b>, <b class="b3">ὅσον</b> or <b class="b3">ὅσσον . . μέγ' ὄνειαρ</b>, <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Op.</span>41</span>,<span class="bibl">346</span> ; ὅσ' ἤπειρος πολλὰ τρέφει <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Th.</span>582</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">only so far as, only just</b>, ὅσον ἐς Σκαιάς τε πύλας καὶ φηγὸν ἵκανεν <span class="bibl">Il.9.354</span> ; ὅσον ἐκ Φοινίκης ἐς Κρήτην <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.45</span> ; φιλοσοφίας, ὅσον παιδείας χάριν, μετέχειν <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Grg.</span> 485a</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">R.</span>403d</span> ; οὐδὲν ἡδέως ποιεῖ γὰρ οὗτος, ἀλλ' ὅσον νόμου χάριν <span class="bibl">Diph.43.14</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Metaph.</span>1076a27</span>, al. ; <b class="b3">ὅσον καὶ ἀπὸ βοῆς ἕνεκα</b> <b class="b3">ὠργίζετο</b>, opp. <b class="b3">τῷ ἀληθεῖ ἐχαλέπαινον</b>, <span class="bibl">Th.8.92</span> : so, more fully, ὅσον μοῦνον <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.20</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Th.6.105</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>607a</span>, etc.; or μόνον ὅσον <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Lg.</span> 778c</span> ; ἐγὼ μέν μιν οὐκ εἶδον εἰ μὴ ὅσον γραφῇ <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.73</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">An.</span>7.3.20</span>; σιτάρια μικρὰ προσφέρων οἴνου θ' ὅσον ὀσμήν <span class="bibl">Philem.98.3</span> ; <b class="b3">τί οὐκ ἀπεκοιμήθημεν ὅ. ὅ. στίλην</b>; <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">V.</span>213</span> ; ἢ ὅσον ὅσσον στιγμή <span class="title">AP</span>7.472 (Leon.), cf. <span class="bibl">5.254</span> (Paul. Sil.); ἐπαναγαγεῖν ὅ. ὅ. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ev.Luc.</span>5.3</span> (cod. D, v.l. [[ὀλίγον]]); <b class="b3">ὅσον· ὀλίγον, ὅσον ὅσον δέ, ὀλίγον ὀλίγον</b>, Hsch.; <b class="b3">παρ' ὅσον ἧττον</b> <b class="b2">a little</b> less, <span class="bibl">D.T.631.17</span> (= <b class="b3">παρ' ὀλίγον ἧττον</b>, Sch.) ; <b class="b3">οὐδ' ὅσον</b> <b class="b2">not even</b>, οὐδ' ὅ. ἀττάραγόν τυ δεδοίκαμες <span class="bibl">Call.<span class="title">Epigr.</span>47.9</span>: abs., <b class="b2">not the least mite</b>, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ap.</span>37</span>, <span class="bibl">A.R.2.181</span>,<span class="bibl">190</span> ; οὐδέ περ ὅσσον <span class="bibl">Id.3.519</span> ; οὐδ' ὅσον ὅσσον Philet.7 ; cf. IV. 5. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> of size or distance, <b class="b3">ὅσον τε</b> <b class="b2">about, nearly</b>, <b class="b3">ὅσον τ' ὄργυιαν, ὅσον τε πυγούσιον</b>, <span class="bibl">Od.9.325</span>, <span class="bibl">10.517</span> ; ὅσον τ' ἐπὶ ἥμισυ <span class="bibl">13.114</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Il.10.351</span> ; ὅσον τε δέκα στάδια <span class="bibl">Hdt.9.57</span>; ξύλα ὅσον τε διπήχεα <span class="bibl">Id.2.96</span>, cf.<span class="bibl">78</span> ; so ὅσονπερ τρία στάδια <span class="bibl">Id.9.51</span>; in Att. <b class="b3">ὅσον</b> alone, ὅσον δύο πλέθρα <span class="bibl">Th.7.38</span> ; ὅσον δύ' ἢ τρία στάδια <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phdr.</span>229c</span> ; ὅσον παρασάγγην <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>3.3.28</span> ; so of other measurements, ὅσον τριχοίνικον ἄρτον <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">An.</span>7.3.23</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> with Adjs. of Quality or Degree, mostly with Comp., αἴθ', ὅσον ἥσσων εἰμί, τόσον σέο φέρτερος εἴην <span class="bibl">Il.16.722</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">1.186</span> ; <b class="b3">ὅσσον βασιλεύτερός εἰμι</b> <b class="b2">so far as, inasmuch as</b> I am a greater king, <span class="bibl">9.160</span> : and with Sup., γνώσετ'... ὅσον εἰμὶ θεῶν κάρτιστος <span class="bibl">8.17</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">1.516</span>, etc.: with Advs., ὅσον τάχιστα <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ch.</span>772</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ant.</span>1103</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">El.</span>1433</span> ; ὅσον μάλιστα <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span> 524</span> ; ὅσα ἐδύνατο μ. <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.185</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">5</span> with negs., <b class="b3">ὅσον οὐ</b> or <b class="b3">ὁσονού</b> <b class="b2">just not, all but</b> (cf. IV. <span class="bibl">2</span>), <span class="bibl">Th.1.36</span>,<span class="bibl">5.59</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">ὅσον οὐκ ἤδη</b> <b class="b2">almost</b> immediately, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hec.</span>141</span> (anap.), <span class="bibl">Th.8.96</span> ; later ὅσον ἤδη <span class="bibl">Plb.2.4.4</span>, <span class="bibl">8.34.8</span>; ὅσον οὔπω <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ba.</span>1076</span>, <span class="bibl">Th.4.125</span>,<span class="bibl">6.34</span>: <b class="b3">ὅσον οὐδέπω</b> with fut., <b class="b2">presently, in a minute</b>, <span class="bibl">Nicom.<span class="title">Ar.</span>1.8</span>, <span class="bibl">Hld.2.31</span>, al. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">b</span> οὐχ ὅσον οὐκ ἠμύναντο, ἀλλ' οὐδ' ἐσώθησαν <b class="b2">not only not... but not even</b>, <span class="bibl">Th.4.62</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">c</span> <b class="b3">ὅσον μή</b> <b class="b2">so far as not, save</b> or <b class="b2">except so far as</b>, <b class="b3">καλός τε κἀγαθὸς τὴν φύσιν, ὅσον μὴ ὑβριστής</b> (sic leg.) <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Euthd.</span>273a</span> ; <b class="b3">ὅσον γ' ἂν αὐτὸς μὴ ποτιψαύων</b> <b class="b2">so far as I can</b> without touching... <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Tr.</span>1214</span> ; ὅσον μὴ χερσὶ καίνων <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">OT</span>347</span>; ὅσα μή <span class="bibl">Th.1.111</span>,<span class="bibl">4.16</span>: sts. with a finite Verb, πείθεσθαι... ὅσον ἂν μὴ ἀνάγκη ᾖ <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Oec.</span>21.4</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phd.</span> 83a</span> ; cf. ὅ τι <span class="bibl">11</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">6</span> <b class="b3">ὁσονοῦν</b>, Ion. <b class="b3">ὁσονῶν</b>, <b class="b2">ever so little</b>, εἰ τοίνυν ἐχιόνιζε καὶ ὁσονῶν <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.22</span> ; so ἐφ' ὁσονοῦν <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>6.7.5</span>, <span class="bibl">Iamb.<span class="title">in Nic.</span> p.14</span> P. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">7</span> <b class="b3">ὅσα</b> and <b class="b3">ὅσαπερ</b>, just like [[ὡς, ὥσπερ]], <b class="b2">as</b>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>1.5.12</span>, Luc.<span class="title">VH</span>1.24, etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">V</span> <b class="b3">ὅσῳ, ὅσῳπερ</b>, <b class="b2">by how much</b>, freq. with Comp., ὅσῳ πλέον ἥμισυ παντός <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Op.</span>40</span> ; ὅσῳ κρείττω <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Fr.</span>488.3</span> ; ὅσῳ ἂν πλεονάκις εἰσίῃς <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>1.3.14</span>: with Sup., διέδεξε, ὅσῳ ἐστὶ τοῦτο ἄριστον <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.82</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ant.</span>59</span>, <span class="bibl">1050</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b3">ὅσῳ</b> with Comp. when folld. by another Comp. with <b class="b3">τοσούτῳ</b>, <b class="b2">the more... so much the more</b>... <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>7.5.80</span> ; ὅ. μᾶλλον πιστεύω, τοσούτῳ μᾶλλον ἀπορῶ <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span> 368b</span> : with <b class="b3">τοσούτῳ</b> omitted, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Nu.</span>1419</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>792</span> : sts. a Sup. replaces the Comp., ὅσῳ μάλιστα ἐλεύθεροι... τοσούτῳ καὶ θρασύτατα <span class="bibl">Th.8.84</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Lys.7.39</span> ; <b class="b3">ὅσῳ</b> alone, <b class="b3">ἑωυτοὺς δὲ γενέσθαι τοσούτῳ... ἀμείνονας, ὅσῳ</b> . . <span class="bibl">Hdt.6.137</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">5.49</span>, <span class="bibl">8.13</span> ; νιν τῶνδε πλεῖστον ᾤκτισα... ὅσῳπερ καὶ φρονεῖν οἶδεν μόνη <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Tr.</span>313</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">OC</span>743</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">VI</span> <b class="b3">ἐς ὅσον, ἐφ' ὅσον, καθ' ὅσον</b> are freq. used much like [[ὅσον, εἰς ὅσον σθένω]] <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ph.</span> 1403</span> (troch.); ἐφ' ὅσον ἐδύνατο <span class="bibl">Th.1.4</span> ; εἰς ὅσον δύνανται <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>607a</span> ; καθ' ὅσον δυνατόν <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ti.</span>51b</span> ; <b class="b3">ἐφ' ὅσον ἐστὶν δυνατός</b> <b class="b2">as far as</b> he can, <span class="title">IG</span>22.903.11 (ii B.C.); later of Time, ἐς ὅσον δύναμίς μοι ὑπῆρχεν <b class="b2">as long as .</b>. POxy.899.8 (ii/iii A.D.); <b class="b3">ἐφ' ὅσον περιῆσαν</b> <b class="b2">as long as</b> they lived, Mitteis <span class="title">Chr.</span>31i23 (ii B.C.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> ἐν ὅσῳ <b class="b2">while</b>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pax</span>943</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl">Th.8.87</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">VII</span> no Adv. <b class="b3">ὅσως</b> occurs.</span>
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|lstext='''ὅσος''': Ἐπικ. [[ὅσσος]], -η, -ον, ἐν χρήσει παρ᾿ Ὁμ. καὶ Ἡσ. ἐν ἀμφοτέροις τοῖς τύποις· [[ὡσαύτως]] τὸ [[ὅσσος]] ἐν Λυρ. χωρίῳ τοῦ Αἰσχύλου ἐν Πέρσ. 864· - τίθεται δὲ ἐπὶ μεγέθους, ἐπὶ ποσότητος, ἐπὶ διαστήματος, ἐπὶ χρόνου, ἐπὶ ἀριθμοῦ, ἐπὶ ἤχου, κτλ.· ἀκριβῶς ὡς τὸ Λατ. quantus: [[εἶναι]] συσχετικὸν ἀναφορικὸν τοῦ [[τόσος]]: τόσσον... χρόνον, ὅσσον ἄνωγας Ἰλ. Ω. 670, πρβλ. Ὀδ. Τ. 169· [[ὡσαύτως]], τόσονδ᾿, ὅσον... Σοφ. Ἠλ. 286· τοσαύτην παρασκευήν, ὅσην... Δημ. 50. 11· - [[ἐνίοτε]] καὶ τὸ πᾶς ἢ [[ἅπας]] προηγεῖται τοῦ [[ὅσος]], χῶρον ἅπαντα ὅσον… Ἰλ. Ψ. 190· ἐκ πασέων, ὅσσαι... Ὀδ. Δ. 723· πάντα μάλ᾿ ὅσσα... Ἰλ. Χ. 115. τοὺς πάντας..., ὅσοι.. Αἰσχύλ. Πρ. 975, κλ.· [[ὡσαύτως]], ὅσων... ψαύοιμι, πάντων τῶνδ᾿ ἀεὶ μετειχέτην Σοφ. Ο. Τ. 1465· - [[ὡσαύτως]], ἴσον ὅσον, ἀκριβῶς τόσον, ὅσον, ἐμοῖ δ᾿ ἴσον τῆς χώρας μέτα, ὅσονπερ ὑμῖν Ἀριστοφ. Ἐκκλ. 173, πρβλ. Δημ. 528. 18· - [[συχνάκις]] τὸ προσδιοριζόμενον δεικτικὸν παραλείπεται, τῆς ἦ τοι φωνὴ μὲν ὅση σκύλακος νεογιλῆς Ὀδ. Μ. 86, πρβλ. Κ. 113, κτλ.· ἀσπίδες ὅσσαι ἄρισται Ἰλ. Ξ. 371, πρβλ. 75., Σ. 512. - Τὸ οὐσιαστικὸν [[πολλάκις]] τίθεται ἐν τῇ προσδιοριζομένῃ δεικτικῇ προτάσει, ἐν ᾧ [[ὁμαλῶς]] ἀνήκει εἰς τὴν προσδιορίζουσαν ἀναφορικήν, ὁρᾷς... τὴν θεῶν ἰσχύν, ὅση [ἐστί]; Σοφ. Αἴ. 118· ὦ Ζεῦ…, τὸ [[χρῆμα]] τῶν κόπων ὅσον! Ἀριστοφ. Βάτρ. 1278· καὶ [[ἐνίοτε]] τὸ ἀναφορικ. καθ᾿ ἕλξιν τίθεται εἰς τὴν πτῶσιν τοῦ προσδιοριζομένου, εὐτραφέστατον πωμάτων ὅσων ἴησιν (ἀντὶ ὅσα) Αἰσχύλ. Θήβ. 309· - συναπτόμενον πρὸς τὸ οἷος, [[ὅσσος]] ἔην οἷός τε Ἰλ. Ω. 630· [[οὕτως]], ὅσσοι τε καὶ οἵτινες Ὀδ. Π. 236· - παρ᾿ Ἀττ., ἐπαναλαμβάνεται ἐν τῇ προτάσει, τὸ δ᾿ ὅσον [[μέτρον]] ὅσοις..., πόσον μέγα [[εἶναι]] τὸ [[μέτρον]] καὶ εἰς πόσα πράγματα, Πλάτ. Τίμ. 68Β· γαίης ὅσσης ὅσσον ἔχει [[μόριον]] Ἀνθολ. Π. 7. 740· - [[ἐνίοτε]] συνάπτεται μετοχῇ ἀντὶ ῥήματος παρεμφατικῆς ἐγκλίσ., ὅσοι συμπαρεπόμενοι (ἀντὶ συμπαρείποντο) Ξενοφ. Ἱππ. 11. 12, πρβλ. Dind. Ξεν. Ἑλλ. 6. 1, 10. 2) ἐν τῷ πληθ. τὸ οὐσιαστικὸν δύναται νὰ τεθῇ ἢ κατ᾿ ὀνομ. ἢ κατὰ διαιρετ. γεν., Τρῶας μὲν λέξασθαι, ἐφέστιοι ὅσσοι [[ἔασι]] Ἰλ. Β. 125, πρβλ. 468, κλ.· Τρώων θάνον, ὅσσοι ἄριστοι Μ. 13, πρβλ. Spitzn. εἰς Ι. 55· ἄριστοι ἵππων, ὅσσοι [[ἔασι]] Ε. 267· Περσῶν ὅσοιπερ Αἰσχύλ. Πέρσ. 441· οὕτω καὶ ὅσον πένθεος, ἀντὶ ὅσον [[πένθος]], Ἰλ. Λ. 658, κτλ.· περὶ τοῦ τῶν ὅσοι, ἴδε ὁ, ἡ, τό Α. ΙΙΙ. 3) παρ᾿ Ἀττ. ἐπὶ χρόνου, ὅσαι ἡμέραι, ὅσα ἔτη, κτλ., ἴδε ἐν λ. [[ὁσημέραι]]. 4) [[μετὰ]] τῆς ἀντων. τις, συνάπτεται πρὸς δήλωσιν ἀορίστου μεγέθους ἢ ποσοῦ, [[ὅσσος]] τις [[χρυσός]]…, Ὀδ. Κ. 45· ὅσον τι [[δένδρον]]... Ἡρόδ. 1. 193· ὅσον τί ἐστι Α. 185· ὅσοι τινὲς ἐόντες.. ὁ αὐτ. 7. 102, κτλ. 5) [[μετὰ]] αἰτ. ἀπολ., [[λίμνη]].. [[μέγαθος]] ὅσηπερ ἡ ἐν Δήλῳ, κατὰ τὸ [[μέγεθος]] τόση ὅση..., ὁ αὐτ. 2. 170, πρβλ. 2. 175, Πλάτ. Πολ. 423Β. 6) μετ᾿ ἐπιθ. δηλούντων ποσότητα, κτλ., πίθηκοι ἄφθονοι ὅσοι.. γίνονται, δηλ. παμπληθεῖς, Ἡρόδ. 4. 194· [[ὄχλος]] ὑπερφυὴς [[ὅσος]], καθ᾿ ὑπερβολὴν [[μέγας]], Ἀριστοφ. Πλ. 750· χρήματα θαυμαστὰ ὅσα Πλάτ. Ἱππ. Μείζων 282C, πρβλ. Λουκ. Ἁλκ. 5, κτλ.· [[ὡσαύτως]], ὀλίγους ὅσους τῶν κοφίνων Λουκ. Ἀλέξ. 1· - [[συχν]]. ἐν ἐπιρρηματικῇ συντάξει, θαυμαστὸν ὅσον ἐπιδιδόντες Πλάτ. Θεαίτ. 150D· θ. ὅσον διαφέρει ὁ αὐτ. ἐν Λάχ. 184C· ἀμηχάνῳ δὴ ὅσῳ πλέον ὁ αὐτ. ἐν Πολ. 588Α· τυτθὸν ὅσσον ἄπωθεν Θεόκρ. 1. 45· βαιὸν ὅσον παραβὰς Ἀνθ. Π. 12. 227· - [[οὕτως]] ἐν τῇ Λατ. mirum quantum, immane quantum. 7) οὕτω καὶ [[μετὰ]] ὑπερθ., ὅσα.. ἀναθήματά ἐστί οἱ πλεῖστα Ἡρόδ. 1. 14. ὅσας ἂν πλείστας δύναιντο καταστρέφεσθαι τῶν πολίων ὁ αὐτ. 6. 44, πρβλ. Θουκ. 7. 21· οὕτω καί, ὅσον [[τάχος]], ὅσον τὸ δυνατὸν [[ταχέως]], Ἀριστοφ. Θεσμ. 727· συνηθέστερον ὅσον τάχιστα, (ἴδε κατωτ. IV. 4)· ὅσον [[σθένος]], [[μετὰ]] πάσης δυνάμεως, Θεόκρ. 1. 42, Ἀπολλ. Ρόδ. Β. 589. 8) μετ᾿ ἀπαρ., τόσον, ὅσον [[εἶναι]] ἀρκετὸν διὰ ..., ὅσον ἀποζῆν, ἀρκετὸν διὰ νά ζῶσιν ἐξ [[αὐτοῦ]], Θουκ. 1. 2· ἐλείπετο τῆς νυκτὸς ὅσον.. διελθεῖν τὸ [[πεδίον]] Ξεν. Ἀν. 4. 1, 5· εὐδαιμονίας τοσοῦτον, ὅσον δοκεῖν, ὅσον [[εἶναι]] ἀρκετὸν διὰ νὰ φαίνηται ὡς [[εὐδαιμονία]], Σοφ. Ο. Τ. 1191, πρβλ. Θουκ. 3. 49, Πλάτ. Πολ. 416Ε, κτλ.· - [[ὡσαύτως]] ἐν παρενθέσει, ὅσον γέ μ᾿ εἰδέναι, ὅσον ἐγὼ [[τοὐλάχιστον]] [[γνωρίζω]], Ἀριστοφ. Νεφ. 1252, Πλάτ. Θεαίτ. 145Α· οὕτω, [[μακραίων]], ὅσ᾿ ἀπεικάσαι Σοφ. Ο. Κ. 150, πρβλ. Θουκ. 6. 25., 8. 46· - ἀλλὰ, 9) τοῦτο συνηθέστερον ἐκφέρεται διὰ τοῦ ὅσον [[μετὰ]] τῆς ὁριστ., ὅσσον ἔγωγε [[γιγνώσκω]] Ἰλ. Ν. 222, πρβλ. Υ. 360 κ. ἀλλαχοῦ· [[οὕτως]], ὅσονπερ [[σθένω]] Σοφ. Ἠλ. 946· ὅσον [[δύναμαι]], ὅσον δυνατόν, Ξεν., Πλάτ., κτλ.· ὅσον καθ᾿ ἕνα ἄνδρα, ὅσον ἐξηρτᾶτο ἐκ τῆς δυνάμεως ἑνὸς ἀνθρώπου, Δημ. 278. 12, πρβλ. Σοφ. Ο. Τ. 1509· [[μετὰ]] γεν., ὅσον γε δυνάμεως παρ᾿ ἐμοί ἐστι Πλάτ. Κρατ. 422C, πρβλ. Σοφ. Ο.Τ. 1239· - οὕτω καί, ὅσα ἐγὼ μέμνημαι Ξεν. Ἀπομν. 2. 1, 21· οἱ πατέρες, ὅσα ἄνθρωποι, οὐκ ἀμαθεῖς ἔσονται Πλάτ. Πολ. 467C· ὅσα γε τἀνθρώπεια (ἐξυπ. ἐνδέχεται) ὁ αὐτ. ἐν Κρίτωνι 46Ε. 10) οὐδ᾿ ὅσον, Ἐπικ. οὐδ᾿ ὅσσον, Λατ. tantillum quidem, Καλλ. εἰς Ἀπόλλ. 37, Ἀπολλ. Ρόδ. Β. 181, 190· [[οὐδέ]] περ ὅσσον [[αὐτόθι]] Γ. 519· - οὕτω καί, οὐδ᾿ ὅσον ὅσσον Φιλήτας παρὰ Στοβ. σ. 104. 12· οὐκ ὅσον ὅσον Ἀριστοφ. Σφ. 213· ἢ ὅσον ὅσσον στιγμὴ Ἀνθ. Π. 7. 472, πρβλ. 5. 255· ἴδε κατωτ. VI. ΙΙ. περὶ τοῦ ὅτι [[τοσοῦτος]] (ἴδε ἐν λ. ὅς Β. VI. 3), Εὐρ. Ἑλ. 74, Πλάτ. Πολ. 329Β, κτλ. ΙΙΙ. ἑπομένων μορίων: 1) [[ὅσος]] ἄν, ὁσονδήποτε [[μέγας]], μεθ᾿ ὑποτ., Ὅμ. κλ. 2) [[ὅσος]] δή, ὅσον [[μέγας]], ἢ [[ὅσος]] τὸν ἀριθμὸν (ἀλλὰ παρ᾿ Ὁμ. [[ἁπλῶς]] ἐπιτεταμ. ἀντὶ τοῦ [[ὅσος]], Ὀδ. Ο. 487, κτλ.), [[κήρυγμα]] ἐποιήσατο..., ζημίην τοῦτον ὀφείλειν, ὅσην δὴ εἴπας, εἰπὼν πόσην, Ἡρόδ. 3. 52· ἐπέταξε τοῖσι… ἔθνεσι γυναῖκας… κατιστάναι, ὅσας δὴ ἐπιτάσσων, ἐπιτάσσων πόσας τὸν ἀριθμόν, [[αὐτόθι]] 159· ἢ [[ἄνευ]] μετοχ., παρεσκευάζοντο ἐπὶ μισθῷ δή, ἐπὶ ὡρισμένῳ μισθῷ, 1. 160· σιτία καταλιπόντες ὅσων δὴ μηνῶν 4. 151· [[οὕτως]], [[ὅσος]] δή κοτε 1. 157· [[ὅσος]] δή τις Διον. Ἁλ. 2. 45., 4. 60· - [[ὅσος]], καθ᾿ ἑαυτό, ἦτο ἐν χρήσει ἐπὶ τοιάτης σημασίας παρὰ μεταγενεστ. πεζογράφοις, Ἀρρ. Ἀνάβ. 1. 5, 15., 3. 1, 4· [[ὅσος]] τις [[ὡσαύτως]], Διον. Ἁλ. 1. 38. 3) ὁσοσοῦν, Ἰων. ὁσοσῶν, ὁσονδήποτε [[μικρός]], Ἡρόδ. 1. 199· ἐν τῷ πληθ., Ἀριστ. Πολιτ. 2. 6, 10· ἴδε κατωτ. IV. 6. 4) [[ὅσοσπερ]], ἀκριβῶς τόσον [[μέγας]] ὅσον, οὐχὶ μεγαλείτερος ἤ, Ἡσ. Θ. 475· τοῦ μὲν χειμῶνός ἐστι [ὁ [[Ἴστρος]]] ὅσοσπέρ ἐστι Ἡρόδ. 4. 50, πρβλ. 2. 170, κλ.· ἐν τῷ πληθ., τόσοι ὅσοι.., Αἰσχύλ. Πέρσ. 423, 441· πάντα ὅσαπερ Ἡρόδ. 4. 87· ἅπαντα.., ὅσαπέρ γ᾿ ἔφασκον, κἄτι πολλῷ πλείονα Ἀριστοφ. Σφ. 806. - ἀλλὰ τὸ [[ὅσοσπερ]] δυσκόλως διακρίνεται ἀπὸ τοῦ [[ὅσος]], ἴδε κατωτ. ΙΙ. 2, 5, καὶ 9, κατωτ. IV. 3 καὶ 7, - τοῦτο δὲ συμβαίνει ἔτι [[μᾶλλον]] εἰς τὸ Ἐπικὸν [[ὅσος]] τε (ἴδε ἐν λ. [[ὅστε]]), Ὀδ. Κ. 113, κτλ. IV. Ἐπιρρηματικαὶ χρήσεις τοῦ ὅσον καὶ ὅσα· 1) τόσον πολὺ ὅσον, εἰς τὸν βαθμὸν ὅσον, κττ., οὐ μέντοι ἐγὼ τόσον αἴτιός εἰμι, ὅσσον οἱ ἄλλοι Ἰλ. Φ. 371· μετ᾿ ἀπαρ., ὅσον γ᾿ ἔμ᾿ εἰδέναι, καθ᾿ ὅσον ἐγὼ [[γνωρίζω]], Ἀριστοφ. Νεφ. 1252· ὅσον αὔξειν ἢ καθαιρεῖν, τόσον [[ὥστε]] νά.., Ἀριστ. Ρητ. 1. 15, 20.) πόσον, πόσον πολύ, ἴστε γὰρ ὅσσον… ἀρετῇ περιβάλλετον ἵπποι Ἰλ. Ψ. 276· μαθήσεται ὅσον τό τ᾿ ἄρχειν καὶ τὸ δουλεύειν [[δίχα]] Αἰσχύλ. Πρ. 927· - [[μετὰ]] ἐπιθ. [[ὡσαύτως]], ὅσον μέγα Ἡσ. Ἔργ. κ. Ἡμ. 41, 344· ὅσα πολλά ὁ αὐτ. ἐν Θ. 582· τὸ [[χρῆμα]] τῶν νυκτῶν ὅσον ἀπέραντον Ἀριστοφ. Νεφ. 2· [[οὕτως]], ὅσα ... ἀήττητοι γεγόνατε Ξεν. Ἑλλ. 1. 1, 28. 2) μόνον τόσον ὅσον, μόνον ἕως, ὅσον ἐς Σκαιάς τε πύλας καὶ φηγὸν ἵκανεν Ἰλ. Ι. 354· ὅσον ἐκ Φοινίκης ἐς Κρήτην Ἡρόδ. 4. 45· φιλοσοφίας, ὅσον παιδείας [[χάριν]], μετέχειν Πλάτ. Γοργ. 485Α, πρβλ. Πολ. 403Ε· τὴν φύσιν ὅσον μή..., ὅσον ἐκ τῆς φύσεως [[αὐτοῦ]] ἐξαρτᾶται νὰ μή, ὁ αὐτ. ἐν Εὐθυδ. 273Α· - οὕτω πληρέστερον, ὅσον μόνον Ἡρόδ. 2. 20, Θουκ. 6. 105, Πλάτ. Πολ. 607Α, κτλ.· ἤ, μόνον ὅσον ὁ αὐτ. ἐν Νόμ. 778C· [[ὡσαύτως]] μετ᾿ ἀρνητικοῦ, ἐγὼ μέν μιν οὐκ εἶδον εἰ μὴ ὅσον γραφῇ Ἡρόδ. 2. 73, πρβλ. Ξεν. Ἀν. 7. 3, 20. 3) ἐπὶ ἀποστάσεως ἢ διαστήματος, ὅσον τε, [[περίπου]], [[σχεδόν]], ὅσον τ᾿ ὄργυιαν, ὅσον τε πυγούσιον Ὀδ. Ι. 325., Κ. 517, πρβλ. Ἰλ. Κ. 351· ὅσον τ᾿ ἐπὶ ἥμισυ Ὀδ. Ν. 114· ὅσον τε [[δέκα]] στάδια Ἡρόδ. 9. 57· ξύλα ὅσον τε διπήχεα 2. 96, πρβλ. 78· [[οὕτως]], ὅσονπερ [[τρία]] στάδια 9. 51· παρ᾿ Ἀττ. μόνον ὅσον, ὅσον δύ᾿ ἢ [[τρία]] στάδια Πλάτ. Φαῖδρ. 229Β· ὅσον παρασάγγην Ξεν. Κύρ. 3. 3, 28. 4) μετ᾿ ἐπιθ. ποιότητος ἢ βαθμοῦ, τὸ πλεῖστον [[μετὰ]] συγκρ., ὅσσον βασιλεύτερός εἰμι, καθ᾿ ὅσον εἶμαι μεγαλείτερος [[βασιλεύς]], Ἰλ. Ι. 160· αἴθ᾿ ὅσον [[ἥσσων]] εἰμί, τόσον σέο φέρτερος [[εἴην]] Π. 722, πρβλ. Α. 186· καὶ [[μετὰ]] ὑπερθετ., γνώσετ᾿..., ὅσον [[εἰμὶ]] θεῶν [[κάρτιστος]] Θ. 17, πρβλ. Α. 516, κτλ.· - οὕτω μετ᾿ ἐπιρρημάτων, ὅσον τάχιστα, [[συχν]]. παρ᾿ Ἀττικ.· ὅσον [[μάλιστα]] Αἰσχύλ. Πρ. 524· ὅσα μ. Ἡρόδ. 1. 185. 5) μετ᾿ ἀρνητικῶν, ὅσον οὐ ἢ ὁσονού, Λατ. tantum non, Θουκ. 1. 36., 5. 59, κτλ.· ὅσον οὐκ ἤδη, ἀμέσως, Εὐρ. Ἑκάβ. 143, Θουκ. 8. 96· παρὰ μεταγεν., ὅσον ἤδη Πολύβ. 2. 4, 4., 8. 36, 8· - ὅσον [[οὔπω]] Εὐρ. Βάκχ. 1076, Θουκ. 4. 125., 6. 34. β) οὐχ ὅσον οὐκ ἠμύναντο, ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ ἐσώθησαν, Λατιν. non modo..., sed ne... quidem, ὁ αὐτ. 4. 62. γ) ὅσον μή, μόνον ὀποῦ δέν, πλὴν ὅτι..., [[καλός]] τε κἀγαθὸς τὴν φύσιν, ὅσον μὴ ὑβριστὴς διὰ τὸ [[νέος]] [[εἶναι]] Πλάτ. Εὐθύδημος 273Β· ὅσον γ’ ἂν αὐτὸς μὴ ποτιψαύων.. χεροῖν (πληρώσω) ὅσον γε (πληρώσαιμ’) ἂν μὴ ποτιψ.., Σοφ. Τρ. 1214· ὅσον μὴ χερσὶ καίνων Ο. Τ. 347· [[οὕτως]], ὅσα μή, Θουκ. 1. 111., 4. 16· [[ἐνίοτε]] [[μετὰ]] ῥήματ., πείθεσθαι ὅσον ἂν μὴ [[ἀνάγκη]] ᾖ Ξεν. Οἰκ. 21. 4, πρβλ. Πλάτ. Φαίδωνα 83Α· πρβλ. ὅ τι ΙΙ. 6) [[ὁσονοῦν]], Ἰωνικ. ὁσονῶν, ὅσον (ὀλίγον) καὶ ἄν.., ὁσονδήποτε ὀλίγον, εἰ [[τοίνυν]] ἐχιόνιζε καὶ ὁσονῶν Ἡρόδ. 2. 22· [[οὕτως]], ἐφ’ [[ὁσονοῦν]] Θεοφρ. π. Φυτ. Ἱστ. 6. 7, 5. 7) ὅσα καὶ ὅσαπερ [[εἶναι]] [[ἐνίοτε]] ἐν χρήσει [[ἁπλῶς]] ὡς τὰ ὡς, [[ὥσπερ]], [[καθώς]], Ξεν. Κύρ. 1. 5, 12, Λουκ. π. Ἀληθ. Ἱστ. 1. 24, κτλ. V. ὅσῳ, ὅσῳ περ, ὅσον, [[συχν]]. [[μετὰ]] συγκρ., ὅσῳ πλέον Ἡσ. Ἔργ. κ. Ἡμ. 40· ὅσῳ κρείττω Ἀριστοφ. Ἀποσπάσ. 445a· ὅσῳ [[πλεονάκις]] Ξεν. Κύρ. 1. 3, 14· [[ὡσαύτως]] μεθ’ ὑπερθ., [[διέδεξε]], ὅσῳ ἐστὶ τοῦτο ἄριστον Ἡρόδ. 3. 82, πρβλ. Σοφ. Ἀντ. 59, 1050· [[ἐνίοτε]] καθ’ ἑαυτό, = καθ’ ὅσον, νιν τῶνδε πλεῖστον ᾤκτισα.., ὅσῳπερ καὶ φρονεῖν οἶδεν μόνη ὁ αὐτ. ἐν Τρ. 313, πρβλ. Ο. Κ. 743, Ἡρόδ. 5. 49. 2) ὅσῳ [[μετὰ]] συγκρ. ἑπομένου ἑτέρου συγκριτικοῦ [[μετὰ]] τοῦ τοσούτῳ, = τοσούτῳ [[μᾶλλον]].., ὡς τὸ Λατ. quo ἢ quanto melior, eo magis.., Ξεν. Κύρ. 7, 5, 80· ὅσῳ [[μᾶλλον]] [[πιστεύω]], τοσούτῳ [[μᾶλλον]] ἀπορῶ Πλάτ. Πολ. 368Β· παραλειπομένου τοῦ τοσούτῳ, Ἀριστοφ. Νεφέλ. 1419, πρβλ. Σοφ. Ο. Κ. 792· - [[ἐνίοτε]] ἀντὶ τοῦ συγκρ. τίθεται ὑπερθετ., ὅσῳ [[μάλιστα]] ἐλεύθεροι.., τοσούτῳ καὶ θρασύτατα Θουκ. 8. 84· [[ἐνίοτε]] τὸ ὅσῳ κεῖται καθ’ ἑαυτό, ἑαυτοὺς δὲ γενέσθαι τοσούτω.. ἀμείνονας, ὅσῳ... Ἡρόδ. 6. 137, πρβλ. 8. 13. VI. ἐς ὅσον, ἐφ’ ὅσον, καθ’ ὅσον [[πολλάκις]] [[εἶναι]] ἐν χρήσει σχεδὸν ὡς τὸ ὅσον, εἰς ὅσον [[σθένω]] Σοφ. Φιλ. 1403· ἐφ’ ὅσον ἠδύνατο Θουκ. 1. 4· εἰς ὅσον ἢ καθ’ ὅσον δυνατὸν Πλάτ., κτλ. 2) ἐν ὅσῳ, ἐν ᾧ, Ἀριστοφ. Εἰρ. 943, Θουκ. 8. 87. VII. Ἐπίρρ. ὅσως δὲν ἀπαντᾷ.
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Transliteration A: hósos Transliteration B: hosos Transliteration C: osos Beta Code: o(/sos

English (LSJ)

Ep. ὅσσος, η, ον, both forms in Hom. and Hes.; ὅσσος also in A.Pers.864 (lyr.); and in many dialects, e. g. Lesb., Alc.Oxy.1788 Fr.15 ii 18 (ὄσσος), Arg., IG4.748.5 (Troezen, iv B. C.), Thess., ib. 9(2).517.19, al.; Central Cret. ὄζος GDI5090 (Lyttos), al., and ὄττος ib.5000 (Gortyn): Relat. and indirect interrog. Adj.:—of Size,

   A as great as, how great; of Quantity, as much as, how much ; of Space, as far as, how far; of Time, as long as, how long; of Number, as many as, how many; of Sound, as loud as, how loud: correl. with τόσος (τόσσος), τοσόσδε, τοσοῦτος, in sense as, τόσσον χρόνον ὅσσον ἄνωγας Il.24.670, cf. Od.19.169; τόσονδ', ὅσον . . S.El.286; τοσοῦτον ὄχλον καὶ παρασκευήν, ὅσην . . D.4.35: sts. with πᾶς or ἅπας as antec., χῶρον ἅπαντα ὅσσον . . Il.23.190; ἐκ πασέων, ὅσσαι . . Od.4.723; πάντα μάλ' ὅσσα . . Il.22.115 ; τοὺς πάντας... ὅσοι . . A.Pr.976, etc.; also ὅσων . . ψαύοιμι, πάντων τῶνδ' ἀεὶ μετειχέτην S.OT1464: with ἴσος, just so much as, ἐμοὶ δ' ἴσον τῇς χώρας μέτα, ὅσονπερ ὑμῖν Ar.Ec.174, cf. D.21.44: freq. without antec., τῆς ἦ τοι φωνὴ μὲν ὅση σκύλακος νεογιλῆς Od.12.86, cf. 10.113, etc.; ἀσπίδες ὅσσαι ἄρισται Il.14.371, cf. 75,18.512 ; agreeing with an antec. implied in an Adj., γυναικείας ἀρετῆς, ὅσαι . . the virtue of all the women, who . ., Th.2.45, cf. ὅς B. 1.1 : the Subst. freq. precedes, where we put it in the Relat. clause, οὐδέ τι οἶδε πένθεος (about the woe), ὅσσον ὄρωρε Il.11.658 ; ὁρᾷς . . τὴν θεῶν ἰσχύν, ὅση [ἐστί]; S.Aj.118 ; ὦ Ζεῦ... τὸ χρῆμα τῶν κόπων ὅσον! Ar.Ra.1278; τὸ χρῆμα τῶν νυκτῶν ὅσον· ἀπέραντον! Id.Nu.2: and sts. it is attracted to the case of the antec., εὐτραφέστατον πωμάτων ὅσων ἵησιν (for ὅσα) A.Th.309 (lyr.); joined with οἷος, ὅσσος ἔην οἷός τε Il.24.630 ; so ὅσσοι τε καὶ οἵτινες Od.16.236: repeated in the same clause, τὸ δὲ ὅσον μέτρον ὅσοις [μειγνύμενον] the quantities of the first ingredient and the others, Pl.Ti.68b ; γαίης ὅσσης ὅσσον ἔχει μόριον AP7.740 (Leon.) : perh. sts. folld. by a partic. for a finite Verb, ὅσοι συμπαρεπόμενοι (s. v. l.) X.Eq.11.12, cf. HG6.1.10.    2 with a partit. gen. in the principal clause, Τρώων θάνον ὅσσοι ἄριστοι Il. 12.13; ἄριστοι ἵππων, ὅσσοι ἔασιν 5.267 ; Περσῶν ὅσοιπερ A.Pers.441; οὔ τις . . ὀνόσσεται, ὅσσοι Ἀχαιοί of all the Achaeans, Il.9.55; [τῶν στρατειῶν] ὅσαι τε καὶ μὴ ἐπικίνδυνοι which are and which are not... Pl.R.467d; on τῶν ὅσοι, v. ὁ, ἡ, τό A. 111.    3 of Time, ὅσαι ἡμέραι, ὅσα ἔτη, etc., v. ὁσημέραι.    4 with τις, in indirect questions, ἰδώμεθα . . ὅσσος τις χρυσὸς . . ἔνεστιν Od.10.45; ὅσον τι δένδρον . . γίνεται Hdt.1.193; ὅσον τι ἐστί ib.185 ; ὅσοι τινὲς ἐόντες . . Id.7.102, etc.    5 with acc. of extent, λίμνη . . μέγαθος, ὅσηπερ ἡ ἐν Δήλῳ in size as large as that in Delos, Id.2.170, cf. 175, Pl.R.423b.    6 with Adjs. expressing Quantity, etc., both words being put in the same case, [πίθηκοι] ἄφθονοι ὅσοι . . γίνονται, i. e. in amazing numbers, Hdt.4.194 ; ὄχλος ὑπερφυὴς ὅσος prodigiously large, Ar.Pl.750 ; χρήματα θαυμαστὰ ὅσα Pl.Hp.Ma.282c, cf. Luc.Halc.5, etc. ; ἀπλάτων ὅσων, ἀμύθητα ὅσα, Phld.Rh.1.3,91 S., cf. Corn.ND9 ; ὀλίγους ὅσους τῶν κοφίνων Luc. Alex.1 ; ἐτόλμησαν ἐπιφύεσθαι ἡμεῖν πλεῖστοι ὅσοι SIG888.65 (Thrace, iii A. D.); μετὰ ἱδρῶτος θαυμαστοῦ ὅσου Pl.R.350d ; διὰ μυρίων ὅσων Longin.1.1: freq. in adverbial construction, θαυμαστὸν ὅσον ἐπιδιδόντες Pl.Tht.150d ; θ. ὅσον διαφέρει Id.La.184c; ἀμηχάνῳ δὴ ὅσῳ πλείονι Id.R.588a ; τυτθὸν ὅσσον ἄπωθεν Theoc.1.45 ; βαιὸν ὅσον παραβάς AP12.227 (Strat.).    7 with Sup., ὅσας ἂν πλείστας δύνωνται καταστρέφεσθαι τῶν πολίων the most they possibly could... Hdt.6.44, cf. Th.7.21 ; also ὅσον τάχος as quickly as possible, Ar.Th. 727 (more freq. ὅσον τάχιστα, v. infr. IV. 4); ὅσον σθένος with all possible strength, Theoc.1.42, A.R.2.589.    8 c. inf., so much as is enough for . ., ὅσον ἀποζῆν enough to live off, Th.1.2 ; ἐλείπετο τῆς νυκτὸς ὅσον . . διελθεῖν τὸ πεδίον X.An.4.1.5; εὐδαιμονίας τοσοῦτον, ὅσον δοκεῖν so much as is enough for appearance, S.OT1191 (lyr.), cf. Th.3.49, Pl.R.416e, etc.    II for ὅτι τοσοῦτος (v. οἷος 11.2,3, ὅς B. IV. 3), Od.4.75, E.Hel.74, etc.    III folld. by Particles:    1 ὅσος ἄν (κεν) how great (many) soever, with subj., Il.3.66, etc.    2 ὅσος δή of such and such a size or number (but in Hom. merely strengthd. for ὅσος, Od.15.487, al.), κήρυγμα ἐποιήσατο... ζημίην τοῦτον ὀφείλειν, ὅσην δὴ εἴπας naming such and such an amount, Hdt.3.52 ; ἐπέταξε τοῖσι . . ἔθνεσι γυναῖκας . . κατιστάναι, ὅσας δὴ ἐπιτάσσων ordering such and such a number, ib.159 ; παρεσκευάζοντο ἐπὶ μισθῷ ὅσῳ δή for payment of a certain amount, Id.1.160 ; σιτία παρακαταλιπόντες ὅσων δὴ μηνῶν Id.4.151 ; so ὅσος δή κοτε Id.1.157; ὁσοσδηποτοῦν, in pl., any number whatsoever, Euc.9.9, al., Agatharch.34; ὁσοσδηοῦν however large, Jul.Or.3.119a ; ὅσος δή τις D.H.2.45, 4.60.    3 ὁσοσοῦν, Ion. -ῶν, ever so small, Hdt.1.199 : in pl., however many, Arist.Pol.1265a41 ; v. infr. IV. 6.    4 ὅσοσπερ, precisely as great as, τοῦ μὲν χειμῶνός ἐστι [ὁ Ἴστρος] ὅσοσπέρ ἐστι of its normal size, Hdt.4.50, cf. 2.170, etc.: in pl., as many as, Hes.Th.475, A.Pers. 423,441 ; ἔθνεα πάντα ὅσαπερ ἦγε Hdt.4.87 ; ἅπαντα... ὅσαπέρ γ' ἔφασκον, κἄτι πολλῷ πλείονα Ar.V.806: but ὅσοσπερ can freq. hardly be distd. from ὅσος, v. supr. 1.2, 5, infr. IV. 1, 3, and 7; and this is still more the case with Ep. ὅσος τε (cf. ὅστε), Od.10.113, al.    IV Adverbial usages of ὅσον and ὅσα:    1 so far as, so much as, οὐ μέντοι ἐγὼ τόσον αἴτιός εἰμι, ὅσσον οἱ ἄλλοι Il.21.371: c. inf., ὅσον αὔξειν ἢ καθαιρεῖν so far as to... Arist.Rh.1376a34 : in parenthesis, c. inf., ὅσον γέ μ' εἰδέναι as far as I know, Ar.Nu.1252, Pl.Tht.145a, cf. D.H.2.59 ; so μακραίων γ', ὅσ' ἀπεικάσαι cj. in S.OC 152 (lyr.); ὅσον ἐς Ἑλλάδα γλῶσσαν ἀπὸ Λατίνης μεταβαλεῖν App. BC4.11 : but more freq. c. ind., ὅσσον ἔγωγε γιγνώσκω Il.13.222, cf. 20.360 ; so ὅσονπερ ἂν σθένω S.El.946 ; ὅσα γε . . ἦν εἰκάσαι Th.8.46; ὅσον δυνατόν Pl.Smp.196d, etc.; ὅσον καθ' ἕν' ἄνδρα so far as was in one man's power, D.18.153 ; ὅσον τὸ σὸν μέρος S.OT1509: c. gen., ὅσον γε δυνάμεως παρ' ἐμοί ἐστι Pl.Cra.422c, cf. S.OT1239 ; also ὅσα ἐγὼ μέμνημαι X.Mem.2.1.21 ; οἱ πατέρες, ὅσα ἄνθρωποι, οὐκ ἀμαθεῖς ἔσονται Pl.R.467c ; ὅσα γε τἀνθρώπεια humanly speaking, Id.Cri. 47a.    b how far, how much, ἴστε γὰρ ὅσσον ἐμοὶ ἀρετῇ περιβάλλετον ἵπποι Il.23.276 ; μαθήσεται ὅσον τό τ' ἄρχειν καὶ τὸ δουλεύειν δίχα A. Pr.927 : with Adjs., how, ὅσον or ὅσσον . . μέγ' ὄνειαρ, Hes.Op.41,346 ; ὅσ' ἤπειρος πολλὰ τρέφει Id.Th.582.    2 only so far as, only just, ὅσον ἐς Σκαιάς τε πύλας καὶ φηγὸν ἵκανεν Il.9.354 ; ὅσον ἐκ Φοινίκης ἐς Κρήτην Hdt.4.45 ; φιλοσοφίας, ὅσον παιδείας χάριν, μετέχειν Pl.Grg. 485a, cf. R.403d ; οὐδὲν ἡδέως ποιεῖ γὰρ οὗτος, ἀλλ' ὅσον νόμου χάριν Diph.43.14, cf. Arist.Metaph.1076a27, al. ; ὅσον καὶ ἀπὸ βοῆς ἕνεκα ὠργίζετο, opp. τῷ ἀληθεῖ ἐχαλέπαινον, Th.8.92 : so, more fully, ὅσον μοῦνον Hdt.2.20, cf. Th.6.105, Pl.R.607a, etc.; or μόνον ὅσον Id.Lg. 778c ; ἐγὼ μέν μιν οὐκ εἶδον εἰ μὴ ὅσον γραφῇ Hdt.2.73, cf. X.An.7.3.20; σιτάρια μικρὰ προσφέρων οἴνου θ' ὅσον ὀσμήν Philem.98.3 ; τί οὐκ ἀπεκοιμήθημεν ὅ. ὅ. στίλην; Ar.V.213 ; ἢ ὅσον ὅσσον στιγμή AP7.472 (Leon.), cf. 5.254 (Paul. Sil.); ἐπαναγαγεῖν ὅ. ὅ. Ev.Luc.5.3 (cod. D, v.l. ὀλίγον); ὅσον· ὀλίγον, ὅσον ὅσον δέ, ὀλίγον ὀλίγον, Hsch.; παρ' ὅσον ἧττον a little less, D.T.631.17 (= παρ' ὀλίγον ἧττον, Sch.) ; οὐδ' ὅσον not even, οὐδ' ὅ. ἀττάραγόν τυ δεδοίκαμες Call.Epigr.47.9: abs., not the least mite, Id.Ap.37, A.R.2.181,190 ; οὐδέ περ ὅσσον Id.3.519 ; οὐδ' ὅσον ὅσσον Philet.7 ; cf. IV. 5.    3 of size or distance, ὅσον τε about, nearly, ὅσον τ' ὄργυιαν, ὅσον τε πυγούσιον, Od.9.325, 10.517 ; ὅσον τ' ἐπὶ ἥμισυ 13.114, cf. Il.10.351 ; ὅσον τε δέκα στάδια Hdt.9.57; ξύλα ὅσον τε διπήχεα Id.2.96, cf.78 ; so ὅσονπερ τρία στάδια Id.9.51; in Att. ὅσον alone, ὅσον δύο πλέθρα Th.7.38 ; ὅσον δύ' ἢ τρία στάδια Pl.Phdr.229c ; ὅσον παρασάγγην X.Cyr.3.3.28 ; so of other measurements, ὅσον τριχοίνικον ἄρτον Id.An.7.3.23.    4 with Adjs. of Quality or Degree, mostly with Comp., αἴθ', ὅσον ἥσσων εἰμί, τόσον σέο φέρτερος εἴην Il.16.722, cf. 1.186 ; ὅσσον βασιλεύτερός εἰμι so far as, inasmuch as I am a greater king, 9.160 : and with Sup., γνώσετ'... ὅσον εἰμὶ θεῶν κάρτιστος 8.17, cf. 1.516, etc.: with Advs., ὅσον τάχιστα A.Ch.772, S.Ant.1103, El.1433 ; ὅσον μάλιστα A.Pr. 524 ; ὅσα ἐδύνατο μ. Hdt.1.185.    5 with negs., ὅσον οὐ or ὁσονού just not, all but (cf. IV. 2), Th.1.36,5.59, etc.; ὅσον οὐκ ἤδη almost immediately, E.Hec.141 (anap.), Th.8.96 ; later ὅσον ἤδη Plb.2.4.4, 8.34.8; ὅσον οὔπω E.Ba.1076, Th.4.125,6.34: ὅσον οὐδέπω with fut., presently, in a minute, Nicom.Ar.1.8, Hld.2.31, al.    b οὐχ ὅσον οὐκ ἠμύναντο, ἀλλ' οὐδ' ἐσώθησαν not only not... but not even, Th.4.62.    c ὅσον μή so far as not, save or except so far as, καλός τε κἀγαθὸς τὴν φύσιν, ὅσον μὴ ὑβριστής (sic leg.) Pl.Euthd.273a ; ὅσον γ' ἂν αὐτὸς μὴ ποτιψαύων so far as I can without touching... S.Tr.1214 ; ὅσον μὴ χερσὶ καίνων Id.OT347; ὅσα μή Th.1.111,4.16: sts. with a finite Verb, πείθεσθαι... ὅσον ἂν μὴ ἀνάγκη ᾖ X.Oec.21.4, cf. Pl.Phd. 83a ; cf. ὅ τι 11.    6 ὁσονοῦν, Ion. ὁσονῶν, ever so little, εἰ τοίνυν ἐχιόνιζε καὶ ὁσονῶν Hdt.2.22 ; so ἐφ' ὁσονοῦν Thphr.HP6.7.5, Iamb.in Nic. p.14 P.    7 ὅσα and ὅσαπερ, just like ὡς, ὥσπερ, as, X.Cyr.1.5.12, Luc.VH1.24, etc.    V ὅσῳ, ὅσῳπερ, by how much, freq. with Comp., ὅσῳ πλέον ἥμισυ παντός Hes.Op.40 ; ὅσῳ κρείττω Ar.Fr.488.3 ; ὅσῳ ἂν πλεονάκις εἰσίῃς X.Cyr.1.3.14: with Sup., διέδεξε, ὅσῳ ἐστὶ τοῦτο ἄριστον Hdt.3.82, cf. S.Ant.59, 1050.    2 ὅσῳ with Comp. when folld. by another Comp. with τοσούτῳ, the more... so much the more... X.Cyr.7.5.80 ; ὅ. μᾶλλον πιστεύω, τοσούτῳ μᾶλλον ἀπορῶ Pl.R. 368b : with τοσούτῳ omitted, Ar.Nu.1419, S.OC792 : sts. a Sup. replaces the Comp., ὅσῳ μάλιστα ἐλεύθεροι... τοσούτῳ καὶ θρασύτατα Th.8.84, cf. Lys.7.39 ; ὅσῳ alone, ἑωυτοὺς δὲ γενέσθαι τοσούτῳ... ἀμείνονας, ὅσῳ . . Hdt.6.137, cf. 5.49, 8.13 ; νιν τῶνδε πλεῖστον ᾤκτισα... ὅσῳπερ καὶ φρονεῖν οἶδεν μόνη S.Tr.313, cf. OC743.    VI ἐς ὅσον, ἐφ' ὅσον, καθ' ὅσον are freq. used much like ὅσον, εἰς ὅσον σθένω Id.Ph. 1403 (troch.); ἐφ' ὅσον ἐδύνατο Th.1.4 ; εἰς ὅσον δύνανται Pl.R.607a ; καθ' ὅσον δυνατόν Id.Ti.51b ; ἐφ' ὅσον ἐστὶν δυνατός as far as he can, IG22.903.11 (ii B.C.); later of Time, ἐς ὅσον δύναμίς μοι ὑπῆρχεν as long as .. POxy.899.8 (ii/iii A.D.); ἐφ' ὅσον περιῆσαν as long as they lived, Mitteis Chr.31i23 (ii B.C.).    2 ἐν ὅσῳ while, Ar.Pax943 (lyr.), Th.8.87.    VII no Adv. ὅσως occurs.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

ὅσος: Ἐπικ. ὅσσος, -η, -ον, ἐν χρήσει παρ᾿ Ὁμ. καὶ Ἡσ. ἐν ἀμφοτέροις τοῖς τύποις· ὡσαύτως τὸ ὅσσος ἐν Λυρ. χωρίῳ τοῦ Αἰσχύλου ἐν Πέρσ. 864· - τίθεται δὲ ἐπὶ μεγέθους, ἐπὶ ποσότητος, ἐπὶ διαστήματος, ἐπὶ χρόνου, ἐπὶ ἀριθμοῦ, ἐπὶ ἤχου, κτλ.· ἀκριβῶς ὡς τὸ Λατ. quantus: εἶναι συσχετικὸν ἀναφορικὸν τοῦ τόσος: τόσσον... χρόνον, ὅσσον ἄνωγας Ἰλ. Ω. 670, πρβλ. Ὀδ. Τ. 169· ὡσαύτως, τόσονδ᾿, ὅσον... Σοφ. Ἠλ. 286· τοσαύτην παρασκευήν, ὅσην... Δημ. 50. 11· - ἐνίοτε καὶ τὸ πᾶς ἢ ἅπας προηγεῖται τοῦ ὅσος, χῶρον ἅπαντα ὅσον… Ἰλ. Ψ. 190· ἐκ πασέων, ὅσσαι... Ὀδ. Δ. 723· πάντα μάλ᾿ ὅσσα... Ἰλ. Χ. 115. τοὺς πάντας..., ὅσοι.. Αἰσχύλ. Πρ. 975, κλ.· ὡσαύτως, ὅσων... ψαύοιμι, πάντων τῶνδ᾿ ἀεὶ μετειχέτην Σοφ. Ο. Τ. 1465· - ὡσαύτως, ἴσον ὅσον, ἀκριβῶς τόσον, ὅσον, ἐμοῖ δ᾿ ἴσον τῆς χώρας μέτα, ὅσονπερ ὑμῖν Ἀριστοφ. Ἐκκλ. 173, πρβλ. Δημ. 528. 18· - συχνάκις τὸ προσδιοριζόμενον δεικτικὸν παραλείπεται, τῆς ἦ τοι φωνὴ μὲν ὅση σκύλακος νεογιλῆς Ὀδ. Μ. 86, πρβλ. Κ. 113, κτλ.· ἀσπίδες ὅσσαι ἄρισται Ἰλ. Ξ. 371, πρβλ. 75., Σ. 512. - Τὸ οὐσιαστικὸν πολλάκις τίθεται ἐν τῇ προσδιοριζομένῃ δεικτικῇ προτάσει, ἐν ᾧ ὁμαλῶς ἀνήκει εἰς τὴν προσδιορίζουσαν ἀναφορικήν, ὁρᾷς... τὴν θεῶν ἰσχύν, ὅση [ἐστί]; Σοφ. Αἴ. 118· ὦ Ζεῦ…, τὸ χρῆμα τῶν κόπων ὅσον! Ἀριστοφ. Βάτρ. 1278· καὶ ἐνίοτε τὸ ἀναφορικ. καθ᾿ ἕλξιν τίθεται εἰς τὴν πτῶσιν τοῦ προσδιοριζομένου, εὐτραφέστατον πωμάτων ὅσων ἴησιν (ἀντὶ ὅσα) Αἰσχύλ. Θήβ. 309· - συναπτόμενον πρὸς τὸ οἷος, ὅσσος ἔην οἷός τε Ἰλ. Ω. 630· οὕτως, ὅσσοι τε καὶ οἵτινες Ὀδ. Π. 236· - παρ᾿ Ἀττ., ἐπαναλαμβάνεται ἐν τῇ προτάσει, τὸ δ᾿ ὅσον μέτρον ὅσοις..., πόσον μέγα εἶναι τὸ μέτρον καὶ εἰς πόσα πράγματα, Πλάτ. Τίμ. 68Β· γαίης ὅσσης ὅσσον ἔχει μόριον Ἀνθολ. Π. 7. 740· - ἐνίοτε συνάπτεται μετοχῇ ἀντὶ ῥήματος παρεμφατικῆς ἐγκλίσ., ὅσοι συμπαρεπόμενοι (ἀντὶ συμπαρείποντο) Ξενοφ. Ἱππ. 11. 12, πρβλ. Dind. Ξεν. Ἑλλ. 6. 1, 10. 2) ἐν τῷ πληθ. τὸ οὐσιαστικὸν δύναται νὰ τεθῇ ἢ κατ᾿ ὀνομ. ἢ κατὰ διαιρετ. γεν., Τρῶας μὲν λέξασθαι, ἐφέστιοι ὅσσοι ἔασι Ἰλ. Β. 125, πρβλ. 468, κλ.· Τρώων θάνον, ὅσσοι ἄριστοι Μ. 13, πρβλ. Spitzn. εἰς Ι. 55· ἄριστοι ἵππων, ὅσσοι ἔασι Ε. 267· Περσῶν ὅσοιπερ Αἰσχύλ. Πέρσ. 441· οὕτω καὶ ὅσον πένθεος, ἀντὶ ὅσον πένθος, Ἰλ. Λ. 658, κτλ.· περὶ τοῦ τῶν ὅσοι, ἴδε ὁ, ἡ, τό Α. ΙΙΙ. 3) παρ᾿ Ἀττ. ἐπὶ χρόνου, ὅσαι ἡμέραι, ὅσα ἔτη, κτλ., ἴδε ἐν λ. ὁσημέραι. 4) μετὰ τῆς ἀντων. τις, συνάπτεται πρὸς δήλωσιν ἀορίστου μεγέθους ἢ ποσοῦ, ὅσσος τις χρυσός…, Ὀδ. Κ. 45· ὅσον τι δένδρον... Ἡρόδ. 1. 193· ὅσον τί ἐστι Α. 185· ὅσοι τινὲς ἐόντες.. ὁ αὐτ. 7. 102, κτλ. 5) μετὰ αἰτ. ἀπολ., λίμνη.. μέγαθος ὅσηπερ ἡ ἐν Δήλῳ, κατὰ τὸ μέγεθος τόση ὅση..., ὁ αὐτ. 2. 170, πρβλ. 2. 175, Πλάτ. Πολ. 423Β. 6) μετ᾿ ἐπιθ. δηλούντων ποσότητα, κτλ., πίθηκοι ἄφθονοι ὅσοι.. γίνονται, δηλ. παμπληθεῖς, Ἡρόδ. 4. 194· ὄχλος ὑπερφυὴς ὅσος, καθ᾿ ὑπερβολὴν μέγας, Ἀριστοφ. Πλ. 750· χρήματα θαυμαστὰ ὅσα Πλάτ. Ἱππ. Μείζων 282C, πρβλ. Λουκ. Ἁλκ. 5, κτλ.· ὡσαύτως, ὀλίγους ὅσους τῶν κοφίνων Λουκ. Ἀλέξ. 1· - συχν. ἐν ἐπιρρηματικῇ συντάξει, θαυμαστὸν ὅσον ἐπιδιδόντες Πλάτ. Θεαίτ. 150D· θ. ὅσον διαφέρει ὁ αὐτ. ἐν Λάχ. 184C· ἀμηχάνῳ δὴ ὅσῳ πλέον ὁ αὐτ. ἐν Πολ. 588Α· τυτθὸν ὅσσον ἄπωθεν Θεόκρ. 1. 45· βαιὸν ὅσον παραβὰς Ἀνθ. Π. 12. 227· - οὕτως ἐν τῇ Λατ. mirum quantum, immane quantum. 7) οὕτω καὶ μετὰ ὑπερθ., ὅσα.. ἀναθήματά ἐστί οἱ πλεῖστα Ἡρόδ. 1. 14. ὅσας ἂν πλείστας δύναιντο καταστρέφεσθαι τῶν πολίων ὁ αὐτ. 6. 44, πρβλ. Θουκ. 7. 21· οὕτω καί, ὅσον τάχος, ὅσον τὸ δυνατὸν ταχέως, Ἀριστοφ. Θεσμ. 727· συνηθέστερον ὅσον τάχιστα, (ἴδε κατωτ. IV. 4)· ὅσον σθένος, μετὰ πάσης δυνάμεως, Θεόκρ. 1. 42, Ἀπολλ. Ρόδ. Β. 589. 8) μετ᾿ ἀπαρ., τόσον, ὅσον εἶναι ἀρκετὸν διὰ ..., ὅσον ἀποζῆν, ἀρκετὸν διὰ νά ζῶσιν ἐξ αὐτοῦ, Θουκ. 1. 2· ἐλείπετο τῆς νυκτὸς ὅσον.. διελθεῖν τὸ πεδίον Ξεν. Ἀν. 4. 1, 5· εὐδαιμονίας τοσοῦτον, ὅσον δοκεῖν, ὅσον εἶναι ἀρκετὸν διὰ νὰ φαίνηται ὡς εὐδαιμονία, Σοφ. Ο. Τ. 1191, πρβλ. Θουκ. 3. 49, Πλάτ. Πολ. 416Ε, κτλ.· - ὡσαύτως ἐν παρενθέσει, ὅσον γέ μ᾿ εἰδέναι, ὅσον ἐγὼ τοὐλάχιστον γνωρίζω, Ἀριστοφ. Νεφ. 1252, Πλάτ. Θεαίτ. 145Α· οὕτω, μακραίων, ὅσ᾿ ἀπεικάσαι Σοφ. Ο. Κ. 150, πρβλ. Θουκ. 6. 25., 8. 46· - ἀλλὰ, 9) τοῦτο συνηθέστερον ἐκφέρεται διὰ τοῦ ὅσον μετὰ τῆς ὁριστ., ὅσσον ἔγωγε γιγνώσκω Ἰλ. Ν. 222, πρβλ. Υ. 360 κ. ἀλλαχοῦ· οὕτως, ὅσονπερ σθένω Σοφ. Ἠλ. 946· ὅσον δύναμαι, ὅσον δυνατόν, Ξεν., Πλάτ., κτλ.· ὅσον καθ᾿ ἕνα ἄνδρα, ὅσον ἐξηρτᾶτο ἐκ τῆς δυνάμεως ἑνὸς ἀνθρώπου, Δημ. 278. 12, πρβλ. Σοφ. Ο. Τ. 1509· μετὰ γεν., ὅσον γε δυνάμεως παρ᾿ ἐμοί ἐστι Πλάτ. Κρατ. 422C, πρβλ. Σοφ. Ο.Τ. 1239· - οὕτω καί, ὅσα ἐγὼ μέμνημαι Ξεν. Ἀπομν. 2. 1, 21· οἱ πατέρες, ὅσα ἄνθρωποι, οὐκ ἀμαθεῖς ἔσονται Πλάτ. Πολ. 467C· ὅσα γε τἀνθρώπεια (ἐξυπ. ἐνδέχεται) ὁ αὐτ. ἐν Κρίτωνι 46Ε. 10) οὐδ᾿ ὅσον, Ἐπικ. οὐδ᾿ ὅσσον, Λατ. tantillum quidem, Καλλ. εἰς Ἀπόλλ. 37, Ἀπολλ. Ρόδ. Β. 181, 190· οὐδέ περ ὅσσον αὐτόθι Γ. 519· - οὕτω καί, οὐδ᾿ ὅσον ὅσσον Φιλήτας παρὰ Στοβ. σ. 104. 12· οὐκ ὅσον ὅσον Ἀριστοφ. Σφ. 213· ἢ ὅσον ὅσσον στιγμὴ Ἀνθ. Π. 7. 472, πρβλ. 5. 255· ἴδε κατωτ. VI. ΙΙ. περὶ τοῦ ὅτι τοσοῦτος (ἴδε ἐν λ. ὅς Β. VI. 3), Εὐρ. Ἑλ. 74, Πλάτ. Πολ. 329Β, κτλ. ΙΙΙ. ἑπομένων μορίων: 1) ὅσος ἄν, ὁσονδήποτε μέγας, μεθ᾿ ὑποτ., Ὅμ. κλ. 2) ὅσος δή, ὅσον μέγας, ἢ ὅσος τὸν ἀριθμὸν (ἀλλὰ παρ᾿ Ὁμ. ἁπλῶς ἐπιτεταμ. ἀντὶ τοῦ ὅσος, Ὀδ. Ο. 487, κτλ.), κήρυγμα ἐποιήσατο..., ζημίην τοῦτον ὀφείλειν, ὅσην δὴ εἴπας, εἰπὼν πόσην, Ἡρόδ. 3. 52· ἐπέταξε τοῖσι… ἔθνεσι γυναῖκας… κατιστάναι, ὅσας δὴ ἐπιτάσσων, ἐπιτάσσων πόσας τὸν ἀριθμόν, αὐτόθι 159· ἢ ἄνευ μετοχ., παρεσκευάζοντο ἐπὶ μισθῷ δή, ἐπὶ ὡρισμένῳ μισθῷ, 1. 160· σιτία καταλιπόντες ὅσων δὴ μηνῶν 4. 151· οὕτως, ὅσος δή κοτε 1. 157· ὅσος δή τις Διον. Ἁλ. 2. 45., 4. 60· - ὅσος, καθ᾿ ἑαυτό, ἦτο ἐν χρήσει ἐπὶ τοιάτης σημασίας παρὰ μεταγενεστ. πεζογράφοις, Ἀρρ. Ἀνάβ. 1. 5, 15., 3. 1, 4· ὅσος τις ὡσαύτως, Διον. Ἁλ. 1. 38. 3) ὁσοσοῦν, Ἰων. ὁσοσῶν, ὁσονδήποτε μικρός, Ἡρόδ. 1. 199· ἐν τῷ πληθ., Ἀριστ. Πολιτ. 2. 6, 10· ἴδε κατωτ. IV. 6. 4) ὅσοσπερ, ἀκριβῶς τόσον μέγας ὅσον, οὐχὶ μεγαλείτερος ἤ, Ἡσ. Θ. 475· τοῦ μὲν χειμῶνός ἐστι [ὁ Ἴστρος] ὅσοσπέρ ἐστι Ἡρόδ. 4. 50, πρβλ. 2. 170, κλ.· ἐν τῷ πληθ., τόσοι ὅσοι.., Αἰσχύλ. Πέρσ. 423, 441· πάντα ὅσαπερ Ἡρόδ. 4. 87· ἅπαντα.., ὅσαπέρ γ᾿ ἔφασκον, κἄτι πολλῷ πλείονα Ἀριστοφ. Σφ. 806. - ἀλλὰ τὸ ὅσοσπερ δυσκόλως διακρίνεται ἀπὸ τοῦ ὅσος, ἴδε κατωτ. ΙΙ. 2, 5, καὶ 9, κατωτ. IV. 3 καὶ 7, - τοῦτο δὲ συμβαίνει ἔτι μᾶλλον εἰς τὸ Ἐπικὸν ὅσος τε (ἴδε ἐν λ. ὅστε), Ὀδ. Κ. 113, κτλ. IV. Ἐπιρρηματικαὶ χρήσεις τοῦ ὅσον καὶ ὅσα· 1) τόσον πολὺ ὅσον, εἰς τὸν βαθμὸν ὅσον, κττ., οὐ μέντοι ἐγὼ τόσον αἴτιός εἰμι, ὅσσον οἱ ἄλλοι Ἰλ. Φ. 371· μετ᾿ ἀπαρ., ὅσον γ᾿ ἔμ᾿ εἰδέναι, καθ᾿ ὅσον ἐγὼ γνωρίζω, Ἀριστοφ. Νεφ. 1252· ὅσον αὔξειν ἢ καθαιρεῖν, τόσον ὥστε νά.., Ἀριστ. Ρητ. 1. 15, 20.) πόσον, πόσον πολύ, ἴστε γὰρ ὅσσον… ἀρετῇ περιβάλλετον ἵπποι Ἰλ. Ψ. 276· μαθήσεται ὅσον τό τ᾿ ἄρχειν καὶ τὸ δουλεύειν δίχα Αἰσχύλ. Πρ. 927· - μετὰ ἐπιθ. ὡσαύτως, ὅσον μέγα Ἡσ. Ἔργ. κ. Ἡμ. 41, 344· ὅσα πολλά ὁ αὐτ. ἐν Θ. 582· τὸ χρῆμα τῶν νυκτῶν ὅσον ἀπέραντον Ἀριστοφ. Νεφ. 2· οὕτως, ὅσα ... ἀήττητοι γεγόνατε Ξεν. Ἑλλ. 1. 1, 28. 2) μόνον τόσον ὅσον, μόνον ἕως, ὅσον ἐς Σκαιάς τε πύλας καὶ φηγὸν ἵκανεν Ἰλ. Ι. 354· ὅσον ἐκ Φοινίκης ἐς Κρήτην Ἡρόδ. 4. 45· φιλοσοφίας, ὅσον παιδείας χάριν, μετέχειν Πλάτ. Γοργ. 485Α, πρβλ. Πολ. 403Ε· τὴν φύσιν ὅσον μή..., ὅσον ἐκ τῆς φύσεως αὐτοῦ ἐξαρτᾶται νὰ μή, ὁ αὐτ. ἐν Εὐθυδ. 273Α· - οὕτω πληρέστερον, ὅσον μόνον Ἡρόδ. 2. 20, Θουκ. 6. 105, Πλάτ. Πολ. 607Α, κτλ.· ἤ, μόνον ὅσον ὁ αὐτ. ἐν Νόμ. 778C· ὡσαύτως μετ᾿ ἀρνητικοῦ, ἐγὼ μέν μιν οὐκ εἶδον εἰ μὴ ὅσον γραφῇ Ἡρόδ. 2. 73, πρβλ. Ξεν. Ἀν. 7. 3, 20. 3) ἐπὶ ἀποστάσεως ἢ διαστήματος, ὅσον τε, περίπου, σχεδόν, ὅσον τ᾿ ὄργυιαν, ὅσον τε πυγούσιον Ὀδ. Ι. 325., Κ. 517, πρβλ. Ἰλ. Κ. 351· ὅσον τ᾿ ἐπὶ ἥμισυ Ὀδ. Ν. 114· ὅσον τε δέκα στάδια Ἡρόδ. 9. 57· ξύλα ὅσον τε διπήχεα 2. 96, πρβλ. 78· οὕτως, ὅσονπερ τρία στάδια 9. 51· παρ᾿ Ἀττ. μόνον ὅσον, ὅσον δύ᾿ ἢ τρία στάδια Πλάτ. Φαῖδρ. 229Β· ὅσον παρασάγγην Ξεν. Κύρ. 3. 3, 28. 4) μετ᾿ ἐπιθ. ποιότητος ἢ βαθμοῦ, τὸ πλεῖστον μετὰ συγκρ., ὅσσον βασιλεύτερός εἰμι, καθ᾿ ὅσον εἶμαι μεγαλείτερος βασιλεύς, Ἰλ. Ι. 160· αἴθ᾿ ὅσον ἥσσων εἰμί, τόσον σέο φέρτερος εἴην Π. 722, πρβλ. Α. 186· καὶ μετὰ ὑπερθετ., γνώσετ᾿..., ὅσον εἰμὶ θεῶν κάρτιστος Θ. 17, πρβλ. Α. 516, κτλ.· - οὕτω μετ᾿ ἐπιρρημάτων, ὅσον τάχιστα, συχν. παρ᾿ Ἀττικ.· ὅσον μάλιστα Αἰσχύλ. Πρ. 524· ὅσα μ. Ἡρόδ. 1. 185. 5) μετ᾿ ἀρνητικῶν, ὅσον οὐ ἢ ὁσονού, Λατ. tantum non, Θουκ. 1. 36., 5. 59, κτλ.· ὅσον οὐκ ἤδη, ἀμέσως, Εὐρ. Ἑκάβ. 143, Θουκ. 8. 96· παρὰ μεταγεν., ὅσον ἤδη Πολύβ. 2. 4, 4., 8. 36, 8· - ὅσον οὔπω Εὐρ. Βάκχ. 1076, Θουκ. 4. 125., 6. 34. β) οὐχ ὅσον οὐκ ἠμύναντο, ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ ἐσώθησαν, Λατιν. non modo..., sed ne... quidem, ὁ αὐτ. 4. 62. γ) ὅσον μή, μόνον ὀποῦ δέν, πλὴν ὅτι..., καλός τε κἀγαθὸς τὴν φύσιν, ὅσον μὴ ὑβριστὴς διὰ τὸ νέος εἶναι Πλάτ. Εὐθύδημος 273Β· ὅσον γ’ ἂν αὐτὸς μὴ ποτιψαύων.. χεροῖν (πληρώσω) ὅσον γε (πληρώσαιμ’) ἂν μὴ ποτιψ.., Σοφ. Τρ. 1214· ὅσον μὴ χερσὶ καίνων Ο. Τ. 347· οὕτως, ὅσα μή, Θουκ. 1. 111., 4. 16· ἐνίοτε μετὰ ῥήματ., πείθεσθαι ὅσον ἂν μὴ ἀνάγκη ᾖ Ξεν. Οἰκ. 21. 4, πρβλ. Πλάτ. Φαίδωνα 83Α· πρβλ. ὅ τι ΙΙ. 6) ὁσονοῦν, Ἰωνικ. ὁσονῶν, ὅσον (ὀλίγον) καὶ ἄν.., ὁσονδήποτε ὀλίγον, εἰ τοίνυν ἐχιόνιζε καὶ ὁσονῶν Ἡρόδ. 2. 22· οὕτως, ἐφ’ ὁσονοῦν Θεοφρ. π. Φυτ. Ἱστ. 6. 7, 5. 7) ὅσα καὶ ὅσαπερ εἶναι ἐνίοτε ἐν χρήσει ἁπλῶς ὡς τὰ ὡς, ὥσπερ, καθώς, Ξεν. Κύρ. 1. 5, 12, Λουκ. π. Ἀληθ. Ἱστ. 1. 24, κτλ. V. ὅσῳ, ὅσῳ περ, ὅσον, συχν. μετὰ συγκρ., ὅσῳ πλέον Ἡσ. Ἔργ. κ. Ἡμ. 40· ὅσῳ κρείττω Ἀριστοφ. Ἀποσπάσ. 445a· ὅσῳ πλεονάκις Ξεν. Κύρ. 1. 3, 14· ὡσαύτως μεθ’ ὑπερθ., διέδεξε, ὅσῳ ἐστὶ τοῦτο ἄριστον Ἡρόδ. 3. 82, πρβλ. Σοφ. Ἀντ. 59, 1050· ἐνίοτε καθ’ ἑαυτό, = καθ’ ὅσον, νιν τῶνδε πλεῖστον ᾤκτισα.., ὅσῳπερ καὶ φρονεῖν οἶδεν μόνη ὁ αὐτ. ἐν Τρ. 313, πρβλ. Ο. Κ. 743, Ἡρόδ. 5. 49. 2) ὅσῳ μετὰ συγκρ. ἑπομένου ἑτέρου συγκριτικοῦ μετὰ τοῦ τοσούτῳ, = τοσούτῳ μᾶλλον.., ὡς τὸ Λατ. quo ἢ quanto melior, eo magis.., Ξεν. Κύρ. 7, 5, 80· ὅσῳ μᾶλλον πιστεύω, τοσούτῳ μᾶλλον ἀπορῶ Πλάτ. Πολ. 368Β· παραλειπομένου τοῦ τοσούτῳ, Ἀριστοφ. Νεφέλ. 1419, πρβλ. Σοφ. Ο. Κ. 792· - ἐνίοτε ἀντὶ τοῦ συγκρ. τίθεται ὑπερθετ., ὅσῳ μάλιστα ἐλεύθεροι.., τοσούτῳ καὶ θρασύτατα Θουκ. 8. 84· ἐνίοτε τὸ ὅσῳ κεῖται καθ’ ἑαυτό, ἑαυτοὺς δὲ γενέσθαι τοσούτω.. ἀμείνονας, ὅσῳ... Ἡρόδ. 6. 137, πρβλ. 8. 13. VI. ἐς ὅσον, ἐφ’ ὅσον, καθ’ ὅσον πολλάκις εἶναι ἐν χρήσει σχεδὸν ὡς τὸ ὅσον, εἰς ὅσον σθένω Σοφ. Φιλ. 1403· ἐφ’ ὅσον ἠδύνατο Θουκ. 1. 4· εἰς ὅσον ἢ καθ’ ὅσον δυνατὸν Πλάτ., κτλ. 2) ἐν ὅσῳ, ἐν ᾧ, Ἀριστοφ. Εἰρ. 943, Θουκ. 8. 87. VII. Ἐπίρρ. ὅσως δὲν ἀπαντᾷ.