ὅ γε
πενία μόνα τὰς τέχνας ἐγείρει → poverty alone promotes skilled work, necessity is the mother of invention, necessity is the mother of all invention, poverty is the mother of invention, out of necessity comes invention, out of necessity came invention, frugality is the mother of invention
English (LSJ)
ἥ γε, τό γε, the demonstr. Pron. ὁ, ἡ, τό, made slightly (if at all) more emphatic by the addition of γε,
A he, she, it : I Τεῦκρον . . καὶ Λήϊτον... τοὺς ὅ γ' ἐποτρύνων Il.13.94 ; πάντες ἄρ' οἵ γ' ἔθελον 7.169 ; κεῖνος ὅ γε . . ἧσται there he sitteth, 19.344 ; with a Subst., ὅ γ' ἥρως he the hero, 5.327 ; τόν γε ἄνακτα ib.794. II in one clause of a disjunctive sentence, either the former, πατὴρ δ' ἐμός . . ζώει ὅ γ' ἦ τέθνηκε Od.2.132, cf. 3.90,4.821 ; or the latter, ἤ τινας ἐκ Πύλου ἄξει... ἢ ὅ γε καὶ Σπάρτηθεν 2.327 ; so λάθοι ἂν ἤτοι μανεὶς ἢ ὅ γε ἀπόπληκτος γενόμενος Hdt.2.173 : so also in an adversative clause, Θέτις δ' οὐ λήθετ' ἐφετμέων... ἀλλ' ἥ γ' ἀνεδύσετο Il.1.496, cf. 11.226. III after ὥς (thus), ib.136,al. IV Adverbial usages : 1 dat. τῇ γε, there, at that point, 6.435. 2 acc. neut. τό γε, on that account, 5.827, Od.17.401.
