ὁπόσος
οὐκ ἐπιλογιζόμενος ὅτι ἅμα μὲν ὀδύρῃ τὴν ἀναισθησίαν, ἅμα δὲ ἀλγεῖς ἐπὶ σήψεσι καὶ στερήσει τῶν ἡδέων, ὥσπερ εἰς ἕτερον ζῆν ἀποθανούμενος, ἀλλ᾿ οὐκ εἰς παντελῆ μεταβαλῶν ἀναισθησίαν καὶ τὴν αὐτὴν τῇ πρὸ τῆς γενέσεως → you do not consider that you are at one and the same time lamenting your want of sensation, and pained at the idea of your rotting away, and of being deprived of what is pleasant, as if you are to die and live in another state, and not to pass into insensibility complete, and the same as that before you were born
English (LSJ)
Ep. ὁππόσος Od.14.47, ὁπόσσος 22.220, Il.23.238 (also ὁπόσος 24.7), ὁπόσσος also Berl.Sitzb.1927.160 (Cyrene), IG42(1).121.109 (Epid., iv B. C.); Ion. ὁκόσος; Cret. and Boeot. ὁπόττος Leg.Gort.4.40, al., IG7.522.19 (iii B. C.), etc.: correlat. to πόσος: freq. in IG12, but replaced by ὅσος in Att. Inscrr. after 300 B.C. : I as Relat., like ὅσος, of Number, as many, as many as . ., ὁπόσα τολύπευσε σὺν αὐτῷ Il.24.7 ; πᾶσι θεοῖς... ὁπόσοι τὴν Διὸς αὐλὴν εἰσοιχνεῦσιν A. Pr.121 (anap.), cf. 411, Th.927 (both lyr.); τοσαῦτα ὁπόσα σοι φίλον Pl.Lg.642d ; ὁπόσους πλείστους ἐδυνάμην X.Cyr.4.5.29, etc. : in Prose freq. ὁ. ἄν with subj., ὁπόσοις ἂν δοκῇ Foed. ap. Th.4.118, cf. Pl.Sph. 245d, etc. 2 of Quantity, as much as, of Size or Space, as great as, ὁπόσσον ἐπέσχε as far as it spread, Il.23.238 ; χθόνα... ὁπόσαν καὶ φθιμένοισιν κατέχειν as much as is allowed the dead to occupy, A. Th.732 (lyr.); ὁπόσην τῆς χώρας X.Oec.4.8 : Adverbial in dat., ὁπόσῳ πλέον... τοσούτῳ πλειόνων κτλ. Pl.Lg.649b. 3 with indefinite Particles added, ὁποσοσοῦν how great or much soever, Th.4.37,6.56, Pl.Sph. 245d : Ion. dat. pl., ὁκόσῃσι ὦν Hdt.5.20 ; so ὁπόσῳ δήποτε D.21.39 ; ὁποσοιδηποτοῦν Euc.9.12, al. ; ὁπόσοσπερ Pl.Lg.753b, X.Oec.4.5 ; ὁποσουτινοσοῦν for however large a price, Lys.22.15. II in indirect questions, ὄφρα . . εἴπῃς ὁππόσα κήδε' ἀνέτλης Od.14.47 ; ὁπόσαι ψάμαθοι κλονέονται, καθορᾷς Pi.P.9.46 ; εἰπὲ . . ὁκόσοι τοιοῦτοι [εἰσί] Hdt.7.234 ; διαλογισώμεθα . . ὁπόσα . . πέφανται how many things he has been found to be, Pl.Sph.231d ; ἠρώτων τὸ στράτευμα, ὁπόσον εἴη X.An.4.4.17, cf. Pl.Sis.388e ; ἤρετο ὁπόσου asked for how much, at what price, Timocl.11.9. III = ὅς, Paus.9.31.5.
