Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • τὴν μὲν γὰρ ἐναντιότητα τῶν λόγων ὁπόση ῥᾴδιον καταμαθεῖν. (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 8:1)
  • Ἐμπεδοκλῆσ, ὅτε ἐγεννᾶτο τὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων γένοσ ἐκ τῆσ γῆσ, τοσαύτην γενέσθαι τῷ μήκει τοῦ χρόνου διὰ τὸ βραδυπορεῖν τὸν ἥλιον τὴν ἡμέραν, ὁπόση νῦν ἐστιν ἡ δεκάμηνοσ· (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 5, 1:1)
  • προϊόντοσ δὲ τοῦ χρόνου, τοσαύτην γενέσθαι τὴν ἡμέραν, ὁπόση νῦν ἐστιν ἡ ἑπτάμηνοσ· (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 5, 1:2)
  • περὶ δὲ πολέμου καὶ εἰρήνησ τὴν δύναμιν εἰδέναι τῆσ πόλεωσ, ὁπόση τε ὑπάρχει ἤδη καὶ πόσην ἐνδέχεται ὑπάρξαι, καὶ ποία τισ ἥ τε ὑπάρχουσά ἐστιν καὶ ἥτισ ἐνδέχεται προσγενέσθαι, ἔτι δὲ πολέμουσ πῶσ καὶ τίνασ πεπολέμηκεν. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 4 9:1)
  • οὕτω δὲ τοῦτο ῥᾴδιον εἶναι μαθεῖν ὥστε τὸν προσέχοντα τὸν νοῦν τῇ μετρήσει ἅμα τήν τε γῆν ὁπόση ἐστὶν εἰδέναι καὶ ὡσ μετρεῖται ἐπιστάμενον ἀπιέναι. (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 7 3:3)

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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