ὅπου: Difference between revisions

|Definition=Ion. ὅκου, Relat., indirect interrog., and indef. Adv. of Place, correlat. to [[ποῦ]]: <span class="sense"><span class="bld">I</span> as a Relat., sts. c. gen. loci, τῆς πόλεως ὅπου κάλλιστον στρατοπεδεύσασθαι <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>415d</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.172</span> ; ὅπου βούλοιτο τοῦ δρόμου <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>2.4.27</span> ; ἔσθ' ὅπου [[in some places]], <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Eu.</span>517</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Fr.</span>302</span> : standing for the Relat. Adj., [[μέλη]], [[ὅπου]] (i. e. <b class="b3">ἐν οἷς</b>) χελιδὼν ἦν τις ἐμπεποιημένη <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Av.</span>1301</span> : with other Particles, ὅκου δή [[somewhere or other]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.129</span> ; <b class="b3">ὅπου ἄν</b> [[wherever]], with subj., <span class="title">IG</span> 12.76.11, etc.; in Trag. the [[ἄν]] may be omitted, as <b class="b3">ὅπου δ' Ἀπόλλων σκαιὸς ᾖ, τίνες σοφοί</b>; <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">El.</span>972</span>, etc. (never in Att. Prose): c. gen., ὅπου ἂν τύχῃ τῶν λεγομένων <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Prt.</span>342e</span> ; ὁπουοῦν [[anywheresoever]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Cra.</span>403c</span> ; [[ὅπουπερ]] c. opt., [[wherever]], <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>3.3.5</span> ; ὅπου ποτέ <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span> 12</span> ; [[ὁπουδάν]], = [[ὅπου δὲ ἄν]], [[anywhere]], D.C.<span class="title">Fr.</span>109.21 ; [[ὁπουδήποτε]], = [[ubicumque]], Dosith.p.410 K. ; ὁπουδηποτοῦν [[anywheresoever]], <span class="bibl">J.<span class="title">Ap.</span> 2.15</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> in indirect questions, ὄφρα πύθηαι πατρός, ὅπου κύθε γαῖα <span class="bibl">Od.3.16</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">16.306</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>924</span>, etc.: with Verbs of motion in pregnant sense, ὅκου ἐτράπετο, οὐκέτι εἶχον εἰπεῖν <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.119</span> ; κεῖνος δ' ὅπου βέβηκεν, οὐδεὶς οἶδε <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Tr.</span>40</span>, v.l. in <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>3.1.37</span>, etc.: in many passages editors have in this sense restd. [[ὅποι]], mostly from codd. ; in repeating a question, <b class="b3">ἡ Λακεδαίμων ποῦ 'στιν</b>; Answ. <b class="b3">ὅπου 'στίν</b>; (do you ask) [[where]] it is? <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Nu.</span>214</span> : c. gen., εἰδότες ὅκου γῆς εἴη <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.150</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>403e</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> the strict local sense occasionally passes into, </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">1</span> a sense involving Time or Occasion, ὅ. τιν' ἴδῃ <span class="bibl">Thgn.922</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">999</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>3.3.6</span> ; σιγᾶν θ' ὅ. δεῖ καὶ λέγειν τὰ καίρια <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ch.</span>582</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Eu.</span>277</span> ; <b class="b3">οὐκ ἔσθ' ὅ</b>. there is no case [[in which]], i.e. in no case. <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>448</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Aj.</span>1069</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">HF</span>186</span>, <span class="bibl">D.3.35</span> ; so <b class="b3">ἔστιν ὅ</b>.; as a question, <span class="bibl">Id.18.22</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> of Cause, [[whereas]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.68</span>, <span class="bibl">4.195</span>, <span class="bibl">Antipho 1.7</span>; ὅ. γὰρ ἐγὼ . . ὁμολογῶ <span class="bibl">D.21.205</span> ; <b class="b3">ὅκου γε</b>, Lat. [[quandoquidem]] or [[quippe]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.7.118</span> ; ὅπου γε <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>2.3.11</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">B</span> later as a demonstr. Adv., only in the phrase <b class="b3">ὅ. μέν... ὅ. δέ</b> . . <b class="b2">here... there . .</b>, Plu.2.427c, <span class="bibl">S.E.<span class="title">P.</span>1.53</span>, etc.</span>