ὀπίσω: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ῐ], Ep. ὀπίσσω, the former rare in Hom. and only in signf. ''1''; Aeol. ὐπίσσω <span class="bibl">Sapph.<span class="title">Supp.</span>8.9</span> :—Adv.: <span class="sense"><span class="bld">I</span> of [[place]], [[backwards]], opp. to [[πρόσω]], <span class="bibl">Il.12.272</span>; to [[προπρηνές]], <span class="bibl">3.218</span>; ἀνεχάζετο τυτθὸν ὀπίσσω <span class="bibl">5.443</span>; ἀ. πολλὸν ὀ. <span class="bibl">16.710</span>; πάλιν εἶσιν ὀπίσσω <span class="bibl">Od.11.149</span> : in Prose also, <b class="b3">τὸ ὀπίσω</b>, contr. τοὐπίσω, τὸ ὀ. φεύγειν <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.207</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">8.108</span>; ἄναγε εἰς τοὐπίσω <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>528a</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Th.4.4</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Fr.</span>106</span>, etc.; [γνάμ]φθη δ' ὀπίσσω [φάσγα]νον <span class="bibl">B.12.53</span>; <b class="b3">τὰ ὀ</b>. the [[hinder parts]], <span class="bibl">LXX<span class="title">Jl.</span>2.20</span>; τοῦ προπύλου τὸ ὀ. μέρος <span class="title">SIG</span>756.17 (Athens, i B. C.); <b class="b3">τὴν ὀ. τοῦ προπύλου στέγην</b> ib.12; <b class="b3">ἐκ τοῦ ὀ</b>. on the [[back]] (of the papyrus), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">BGU</span>1002.16</span> (i B. C.); τἀπίλοιπα ὀ. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PTeb.</span>58.37</span> (ii B. C.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[back]], [[back again]], of movement, ἀπήνυσαν οἴκαδ' ὀπίσσω <span class="bibl">Od.7.326</span>; ὀπίσω πάλιν οἴκαδε <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span>3.62</span>; ἂψ ὀ. <span class="bibl">Theoc.25.74</span>; ἀπίκοντο ὀ. <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.62</span>; <b class="b3">ὀ. πορευόμενοι</b> ib.<span class="bibl">75</span>; <b class="b3">ὀ. ἀναπλῶσαι</b> ib.<span class="bibl">78</span>; <b class="b3">ἐν τῇ ὀ. κομιδῇ</b> on his way [[back]], <span class="bibl">Id.8.120</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">1.111</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[back again]], [[again]], of action that reverses an action or occurrence, <b class="b3">ἀνακτᾶσθαι ὀ. τὴν τυραννίδα</b> ib.<span class="bibl">61</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">68</span>, <span class="bibl">2.14</span>; ἀποδόντες ὀ. <span class="bibl">Id.5.92</span>.<b class="b3">γ'</b>; σφραγίζεις λύεις τ' ὀπίσω <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">IA</span>38</span>(anap.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> c. gen., <b class="b3">δεῦτε ὀ. μου</b> come [[after]] me, follow me, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ev.Matt.</span>4.19</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> of Time, [[hereafter]], since the future is unseen and was therefore regarded as [[behind]] us, whereas the past is known and therefore before our eyes, ἡμῖν τεκέεσσί τ' ὀπίσσω πῆμα λίποιτο <span class="bibl">Il.3.160</span>; <b class="b3">Τρῳαὶ δέ μ' ὀπίσσω πᾶσαι μωμήσονται</b> ib.<span class="bibl">411</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Hes. <span class="title">Op.</span>741</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Th.</span>488</span>; ἔς περ ὀπίσσω <span class="bibl">Od.20.199</span> (εἰσοπίσω <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ph.</span>1104</span>(lyr.)); opp. to νῦν, τούτῳ δ' οὔτ' ἂρ νῦν φρένες ἔμπεδοι [εἰσίν], οὔτ' ἄρ' ὀπίσσω ἔσσονται <span class="bibl">Il.6.352</span>; to προπάροιθε, σεῖο δ', Ἀχιλλεῦ, οὔ τις ἀνὴρ προπάροιθε [ἦν] μακάρτατος, οὔτ' ἄρ' ὀπίσσω [ἔσσεται] <span class="bibl">Od.11.483</span>; where [[ὀπίσσω]] and [[πρόσσω]] are opposed, [[πρόσσω]] must be the past and [[ὀπίσσω]] the [[future]], οἶδε νοῆσαι ἅμα πρόσσω καὶ ὀπίσσω <span class="bibl">Il.1.343</span>; ἅμα πρόσσω καὶ ὀ. λεύσσει <span class="bibl">3.109</span>; ὅρα πρόσσω καὶ ὀ. <span class="bibl">18.250</span>, <span class="bibl">Od.24.452</span>; so ὅσα τ' ἦν ὅσα τ' ἔσθ' ὅσα τ' ἔσται ὀπίσσω <span class="bibl">Emp.21.9</span> (ap.<span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Metaph.</span>1000a30</span>); <b class="b3">οὔτ' ἐνθάδ' ὁρῶν οὔτ' ὀπίσω</b> neither present nor [[future]], <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span> 488</span>(lyr.); τοὐπίσω σκοπεῖν <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Fr.</span>49</span>; θνητὸς πεφυκὼς τοὐπίσω πειρῶ βλέπειν <span class="bibl">Isid.Trag.2</span>; cf. ὄπισθεν <span class="bibl">11.1</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b3">ἐν τοῖσι ὀ. λόγοις</b> in the books [[yet to come]], in the [[following]] books, <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.75</span>; cf. ὄπισθεν <span class="bibl">11.2</span>.</span>