ὁπόσος

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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.