Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὁπόστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὁπόστος ὁπόστη ὁπόστον

Structure: ὁποστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. in what relation of number, what number

Examples

  • ἔτι οὕτωσ ἕκαστοσ "ἐμὸσ" λέγει τὸν εὖ πράττοντα τῶν πολιτῶν ἢ κακῶσ, ὁπόστοσ τυγχάνει τὸν ἀριθμὸν ὤν, οἱο͂ν ἐμὸσ ἢ τοῦ δεῖνοσ, τοῦτον τὸν τρόπον λέγων καθ’ ἕκαστον τῶν χιλίων, ἢ ὅσων ἡ πόλισ ἐστί, καὶ τοῦτο διστάζων· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 2 31:1)
  • περὶ μὲν οὖν εὐγενείασ αὐτοῦ τί ἄν τισ μεῖζον καὶ κάλλιον εἰπεῖν ἔχοι ἢ ὅτι ἔτι καὶ νῦν τοῖσ προγόνοισ ὀνομαζομένοισ ἀπομνημονεύεται ὁπόστοσ ἀφ’ Ἡρακλέουσ ἐγένετο, καὶ τούτοισ οὐκ ἰδιώταισ ἀλλ’ ἐκ βασιλέων βασιλεῦσιν; (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 1 3:1)
  • τῷ δὲ ἀνελομένῳ δῆλον εἶναι ὁπόστοσ εἰλήχει. (Plato, Republic, book 10 454:2)

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

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