ὁπόσος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=Ep. [[ὁππόσος]] Od.14.47, [[ὁπόσσος]] 22.220, Il.23.238 (also [[ὁπόσος]] 24.7), [[ὁπόσσος]] also ''Berl.Sitzb.''1927.160 (Cyrene), ''IG''42(1).121.109 (Epid., iv B. C.); Ion. [[ὁκόσος]]; Cret. and Boeot. [[ὁπόττος]] ''Leg.Gort.''4.40, al., ''IG''7.522.19 (iii B. C.), etc.: correlat. to [[πόσος]]: freq. in ''IG''12, but replaced by [[ὅσος]] in Att. Inscrr. after 300 B.C.:<br><span class="bld">I</span> 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 [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|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.<br><span class="bld">2</span> 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.<br><span class="bld">3</span> with indefinite Particles added, [[ὁποσοσοῦν]] = [[how great]] or [[much soever]], Th.4.37,6.56, Pl.''Sph.'' 245d: Ion. dat. pl., ὁκόσῃσι ὦν [[Herodotus|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.<br><span class="bld">II</span> in indirect questions, ὄφρα.. εἴπῃς ὁππόσα κήδε' ἀνέτλης Od.14.47; ὁπόσαι ψάμαθοι κλονέονται, καθορᾷς Pi.''P.''9.46; εἰπὲ.. ὁκόσοι τοιοῦτοι [εἰσί] [[Herodotus|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]], [[asked at what price]], Timocl.11.9.<br><span class="bld">III</span> = [[ὅς]], Paus.9.31.5.