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|Definition=Ep. [[ὁππόσος]] <span class="bibl">Od.14.47</span>, [[ὁπόσσος]] <span class="bibl">22.220</span>, <span class="bibl">Il.23.238</span> (also [[ὁπόσος]] <span class="bibl">24.7</span>), [[ὁπόσσος]] also <span class="title">Berl.Sitzb.</span>1927.160 (Cyrene), <span class="title">IG</span>42(1).121.109 (Epid., iv B. C.); Ion. [[ὁκόσος]]; Cret. and Boeot. [[ὁπόττος]] <span class="title">Leg.Gort.</span>4.40, al., <span class="title">IG</span>7.522.19 (iii B. C.), etc.: correlat. to [[πόσος]]: freq. in <span class="title">IG</span>12, but replaced by [[ὅσος]] in Att. Inscrr. after 300 B.C. : <span class="sense"><span class="bld">I</span> as Relat., like [[ὅσος]], of Number, [[as many]], [[as many as]]. ., ὁπόσα τολύπευσε σὺν αὐτῷ <span class="bibl">Il.24.7</span> ; πᾶσι θεοῖς... ὁπόσοι τὴν Διὸς αὐλὴν εἰσοιχνεῦσιν <span class="bibl">A. <span class="title">Pr.</span>121</span> (anap.), cf. <span class="bibl">411</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Th.</span>927</span> (both lyr.); τοσαῦτα ὁπόσα σοι φίλον <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>642d</span> ; ὁπόσους πλείστους ἐδυνάμην <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>4.5.29</span>, etc. : in Prose freq. ὁ. ἄν with subj., ὁπόσοις ἂν δοκῇ Foed. ap. <span class="bibl">Th.4.118</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Sph.</span> 245d</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> of Quantity, [[as much as]], of Size or Space, [[as great as]], [[ὁπόσσον ἐπέσχε]] = [[as far as it spread]], <span class="bibl">Il.23.238</span> ; χθόνα... ὁπόσαν καὶ φθιμένοισιν κατέχειν = [[as much as is allowed the dead to occupy]], <span class="bibl">A. <span class="title">Th.</span>732</span> (lyr.); ὁπόσην τῆς χώρας <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Oec.</span>4.8</span> : Adverbial in dat., ὁπόσῳ πλέον... τοσούτῳ πλειόνων κτλ. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>649b</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> with indefinite Particles added, [[ὁποσοσοῦν]] = [[how great]] or [[much soever]], <span class="bibl">Th.4.37</span>,<span class="bibl">6.56</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Sph.</span> 245d</span> : Ion. dat. pl., ὁκόσῃσι ὦν <span class="bibl">Hdt.5.20</span> ; so ὁπόσῳ δήποτε <span class="bibl">D.21.39</span> ; ὁποσοιδηποτοῦν <span class="bibl">Euc.9.12</span>, al. ; ὁπόσοσπερ <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>753b</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Oec.</span>4.5</span>; [[ὁποσουτινοσοῦν]] = [[for however large a price]], <span class="bibl">Lys.22.15</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> in indirect questions, ὄφρα . . εἴπῃς ὁππόσα κήδε' ἀνέτλης <span class="bibl">Od.14.47</span> ; ὁπόσαι ψάμαθοι κλονέονται, καθορᾷς <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>9.46</span> ; εἰπὲ . . ὁκόσοι τοιοῦτοι [εἰσί] <span class="bibl">Hdt.7.234</span> ; διαλογισώμεθα . . ὁπόσα . . πέφανται = how many things he has been found to be, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Sph.</span>231d</span> ; ἠρώτων τὸ στράτευμα, ὁπόσον εἴη <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">An.</span>4.4.17</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Sis.</span>388e</span> ; [[ἤρετο ὁπόσου]] = [[asked for how much]], [[asked at what price]], <span class="bibl">Timocl.11.9</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> = [[ὅς]], <span class="bibl">Paus.9.31.5</span>.</span>