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ὁπόσος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὁπόσος ὁπόση ὁπόσον

Structure: ὁπος (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. as many as
  2. as much as, as great as, as far as
  3. how great or much soever

Examples

  • ἔτι δὲ πρὸσ τούτοισ, ἔφη ὁ Σωκράτησ, ἐν ὁπόσαισ τε χώραισ ἐνοικεῖ καὶ εἰσ ὁπόσασ ἐπιστρέφεται, ἐπιμελεῖται τούτων ὅπωσ κῆποί τε ἔσονται, οἱ παράδεισοι καλούμενοι, πάντων καλῶν τε κἀγαθῶν μεστοὶ ὅσα ἡ γῆ φύειν θέλει, καὶ ἐν τούτοισ αὐτὸσ τὰ πλεῖστα διατρίβει, ὅταν μὴ ἡ ὡρ́α τοῦ ἔτουσ ἐξείργῃ. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 4 14:1)
  • ὁ μὲν γὰρ ἀσθενήσ τε καὶ ἄτολμοσ ἐκ τούτου τοῦ γένουσ δαίμων ἐπί τε τὰσ γυναικείασ νόσουσ καὶ ἄλλασ αἰσχύνασ, ὁπόσαισ πρόσεστι ζημία καὶ ὀνείδη, προσάγει ῥᾳδίωσ· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 123:2)
  • ἐν ὁπόσαισ μὲν γὰρ οἱ ἀμείνονεσ νικῶσιν τὸ πλῆθοσ καὶ τοὺσ χείρουσ, ὀρθῶσ ἂν αὕτη κρείττων τε ἑαυτῆσ λέγοιθ’ ἡ πόλισ, ἐπαινοῖτό τε ἂν δικαιότατα τῇ τοιαύτῃ νίκῃ· (Plato, Laws, book 1 17:5)
  • ὁπόσαισ δὲ μὴ καθέστηκεν ὁ χρόνοσ αἴτιοσ ἀφανέσιν εἶναι, Διομήδησ ἦν, ὁ μὲν ἐν Λήμνῳ τὸ Φιλοκτήτου τόξον, ὁ δὲ τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν ἀφαιρούμενοσ ἐξ Ἰλίου. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 22 10:2)
  • καὶ ἡ μὲν παρὰ Τεύθραντα ἡ Αὔγη ἀφίκετο ἐσ Μυσίαν, καὶ γυναικῶν ὁπόσαισ ἐσ τὸ αὐτὸ Ἡρακλέα ἀφικέσθαι λέγουσι, μάλιστα δὴ παῖδα ἐοικότα ἔτεκε τῷ πατρί· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 28 14:2)

Synonyms

  1. as many as

  2. as much as

  3. how great or much soever

Related

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

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