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

  • πάλιν τε πορίζων τἀνδράποδα τὰ ἐπὶ στρατοπέδῳ ὄντα ἐκέλευσε τὸν βουλόμενον ἀπογράφεσθαι ὁπόσου θέλοι, μέλλειν δὲ τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ ὀκτὼ δραχμάσ ἀποτίσαι, ἂν δὲ ἀποδρᾷ τὸ ἀνδράποδον, κομίζεσθαι τὴν τιμὴν ἧσ ἀνεγράψατο. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 2 125:1)
  • "ὡσ οὗτοσ ὁ ἀγὼν δείξει καὶ πόλιν καὶ ἄρχοντα καὶ ἰδιώτην ὁπόσου τοῖσ Ἕλλησιν ἄξιόσ ἐστι. (Plutarch, , chapter 12 1:6)
  • "εἰσ τὴν ἐπισκευὴν τοῦ νεὼ καὶ τοῦ παρασιτίου καὶ τῆσ οἰκίασ τῆσ ἱερᾶσ διδόναι τὸ ἀργύριον ὁπόσου ἂν οἱ τῶν ἱερῶν ἐπισκευασταὶ μισθώσωσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 27 1:7)
  • καὶ ταῦτα πάντῃ μὲν περιελθὼν ἤρετο ὁπόσου, πυθόμενοσ δ’ ἀπέτρεχ’ εἰσ τὰσ μεμβράδασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 39 1:1)
  • ἕλξει δὴ τοσοῦτον αἵματοσ ὁ τεχνίτησ εἰσ ἑαυτόν, ὁπόσου δεῖται. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., B, section 333)

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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