Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὁποῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὁποῖος ὁποῖη ὁποῖον

Structure: ὁποι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of what sort or quality, as
  2. of what sort, of what kind soever
  3. like as

Examples

  • κᾆτα στήσασα παρ’ Ἁρμοδίῳ κληρώσω πάντασ, ἑώσ ἂν εἰδὼσ ὁ λαχὼν ἀπίῃ χαίρων ἐν ὁποίῳ γράμματι δειπνεῖ· (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Agon, epirrheme 3:21)
  • ἐκεῖσε δὴ ’πάνελθε, πῶσ νιν εἵλετε τρόπῳ θ’ ὁποίῳ· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode18)
  • μέμνησ’ ὁποίῳ φωτὶ τὴν χάριν δίδωσ. (Sophocles, Ajax, episode 4:11)
  • μόρῳ δ’ ὁποίῳ κεῖνοσ ὤλετ’, οὐδ’ ἂν εἷσ θνητῶν φράσειε, πλὴν τὸ Θησέωσ κάρα. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 1:18)
  • ἀλλὰ μέχρι μὲν τούτου ἕπομαι, ἔφην ἐγώ, ὦ Ἰσχόμαχε, ὅτι ἐκπονοῦντα φῂσ καὶ ἐπιμελόμενον καὶ ἀσκοῦντα ἄνθρωπον μᾶλλον τυγχάνειν τῶν ἀγαθῶν, ὁποίῳ δὲ πόνῳ χρῇ πρὸσ τὴν εὐεξίαν καὶ ῥώμην καὶ ὅπωσ ἀσκεῖσ τὰ τοῦ πολέμου καὶ ὅπωσ ἐπιμελεῖ τοῦ περιουσίαν ποιεῖν ὡσ καὶ φίλουσ ἐπωφελεῖν καὶ πόλιν ἐπισχύειν, ταῦτα ἂν ἡδέωσ, ἔφην ἐγώ, πυθοίμην. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 11 14:1)

Synonyms

  1. like as

Related

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

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