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οἷόντε

Adverb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἷόντε

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  1. possible;, impossible

Examples

  • οὐ γὰρ οἱο͂́ντε ἦν ἐν ὀλίγῳ χρόνῳ τὴν πληθὺν καλεῖν ἐξ ὀνόματοσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 8 6:3)
  • οἱο͂ν ὀνειδιζόμενοσ ἐπὶ τῷ μὴ θηρᾶσαι μειράκιον, "οὐχ οἱο͂́ντε," εἶπεν, "ἁπαλὸν τυρὸν ἀγκίστρῳ ἐπισπᾶσθαι. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, D, Kef. z'. BIWN 2:9)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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