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

  • ζητῶ οὖν πρὸσ ἐμαυτὸν ὁπόθεν τὰ τοσαῦτα κακὰ συνελέξω καὶ ἐν ὁπόσῳ χρόνῳ καὶ ὅπου κατακλείσασ εἶχεσ τοσοῦτον ἐσμὸν ἀτόπων καὶ διαστρόφων ὀνομάτων, ὧν τὰ μὲν αὐτὸσ ἐποίησασ, τὰ δὲ κατορωρυγμένα ποθὲν ἀνασπῶν κατὰ τὸ ἰαμβεῖον ^ ὄλοιο θνητῶν ἐκλέγων τὰσ συμφοράσ· (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 17:1)
  • ὥστε ἐνενόουν ἐφ’ ὁπόσῳ τοῖσ πλουσίοισ τούτοισ μέγα φρονεῖν κατελείπετο· (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 18:3)
  • πότερον δὲ ὡρίσθαι χρὴ τὸν ἀριθμὸν ἡμῖν τῶν φιλικῶν τούτων πράξεων, ἢ ὁπόσῳ ἄν τισ πλείουσ ἔχῃ λέγειν, τοσούτῳ εὐπορώτεροσ ἂν δόξειεν πρὸσ τὴν νίκην ; (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 11:5)
  • Νόμοσ "τὸ ἀργύριον στάσιμον εἶναι ἐφ’ ὁπόσῳ ἂν βούληται ὁ δανείζων. (Lysias, Speeches, 29:1)
  • πρῶτον μὲν γὰρ ὁ θεσμοθέτησ οὐχ ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν οὐδὲ τῶν νόμων φροντίσασ οὐδ’ ἀγανακτήσασ φανήσεται, ἀλλ’ ἰδίᾳ πεισθεὶσ ὁπόσῳ δήποτ’ ἀργυρίῳ καθυφεὶσ τὸν ἀγῶνα· (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 51:2)

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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