ὁπόσος
εἰ ἀποκρυπτόντων τῶν Μήδων τὸν ἥλιον ὑπὸ σκιῇ ἔσοιτο πρὸς αὐτοὺς ἡ μάχη καὶ οὐκ ἐν ἡλίῳ → if the Medes hid the sun, the battle would be to them in the shade and not in the sun
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.
German (Pape)
[Seite 362] ep. ὁππόσος u. ὁπόσσος, Sp. auch ὁππόσσος, correl. zu πόσος, relativ u. indirect fragend, wie groß, wie viel; ὁπόσα τολύπευσε σὺν αὐτῷ, Il. 24, 7; ὁππόσα κήδε' ἀνέτλης, Od. 14, 47; κτήματ' ὁπόσσα τοί ἐστι, 22, 220; ὁπόσαι δαπάναι, Pind. I. 4, 64; χὡπόσαι, P. 9, 47; Aesch. Pers. 121, öfter; Soph. Ant. 214; ὁπόσαι τῶν τεχνῶν νῦν εἴρηνται, Plat Polit. 288 d; Soph. 231 c u. öfter; – mit ἄν und conj., wie viel auch immer; ὁπόσον ἂν ᾖ, τοσοῦτον ὅλον ἀναγκαῖον εἶναι, Plat. Soph. 245 d; ὁπόσον ἂν κελεύῃ τις, τοσοῦτον ἐκπιών, Conv. 214 a; Crat. 385 d u. öfter (vgl. Xen. An. 2, 2, 21. 7, 2, 361; ὁπόσῳ πλέον ἄν – τοσούτῳ μᾶλλον, je – desto, Legg. I, 647 e; – c. opt., in indirecter Form der Rede, Xen. An. 1, 2, 1, u. zum Ausdrucke der wiederholten Handlung in der Vergangenheit, ὁπόσον δὲ προδιώξειαν οἱ Ἕλληνες, τοσοῦτον πάλιν ἐπαναχωρεῖν μαχομένους ἔδει, ibd. 3, 3, 10, vgl. 5, 1, 16.