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|mdlsjtxt=<br /><b class="num">I.</b> interrog. adv. of [[manner]], how? in [[what]] way or [[manner]]? Lat. qui? [[quomodo]]? used in [[direct]] questions, as [[ὅπως]] in [[indirect]], Hom., etc.:—with a [[second]] interrog. in the [[same]] [[clause]], πῶς ἐκ τίνος νεὼς . . ἥκετε; how and by [[what]] [[ship]] came ye? Eur.:—c. gen., πῶς ἀγῶνος ἥκομεν; how are we [[come]] off in it? Eur.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> with Verbs of [[selling]], how? at [[what]] [[price]]? πῶς ὁ [[σῖτος]] [[ὤνιος]]; Ar.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> πῶς δοκεῖς; v. [[δοκέω]] 1. 2.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> with [[other]] Particles, πῶς ἂν. . ; epic πῶς κε or κεν . . ; how [[possibly]] . . ? Hom., Eur.: —in Trag., πῶς ἄν with opt. expresses a [[wish]], O how [[might]] it be? i. e. would that it were . . ! Lat. O si . . ! O [[utinam]] . . ! πῶς ἂν θάνοιμι; πῶς ἂν ὀλοίμην, etc.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> πῶς ἄρα . . ; in [[reply]], how then . . ? Hom.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> πῶς γὰρ . . ; also in [[reply]], as if [[something]] had [[gone]] [[before]], that cannot be], for how can . . ? Hom., Soph.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> πῶς δή; how in the [[world]]? Il., etc.:—also, πῶς γὰρ δή; Od.; πῶς [[δῆτα]] . . ; Aesch., etc.<br /><b class="num">5.</b> καὶ πῶς . . ; to [[introduce]] an [[objection]], yet how can it be? [[attic]]<br /><b class="num">6.</b> πῶς οὐ . . ; how not so . . ; ? i. e. [[surely]] it is so . . , Thuc., etc.<br /><b class="num">7.</b> πῶς οὖν. . ; like πῶς ἄρα . . ; Aesch., etc.<br /><b class="num">8.</b> πῶς ποτε . . ; how [[ever]] . . ? Soph. <br />2 [not enclitic]<br />in a [[certain]] way, opp. to [[ἁπλῶς]], Arist.

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