Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὁπότερος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὁπότερος ὁπότερᾱ ὁπότερον

Structure: ὁποτερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: correlat. to po/teros

Sense

  1. which of two, whether of the twain
  2. either of two
  3. in which of two ways

Examples

  • ὁποτέραν λέγεισ; (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 2:3)
  • ἔνεστι δὲ τοῖσ βουλομένοισ κἀκείνοισ μὲν ὁμιλῆσαι τοῖσ λόγοισ καὶ νῦν δ’ ἤδη σκοπεῖν, ὥσπερ τινῶν δυοῖν ὁδῶν ἡμῖν προκειμένων, ὁποτέραν βέλτιόν ἐστι τρέπεσθαι. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., , section 1215)
  • διελὼν δ’ ἐγὼ τὰσ δύο ταύτασ μερίδασ, ἔδωκα αἱρ́εσιν τουτῳὶ Ὀλυμπιοδώρῳ ὁποτέραν βούλεται τῶν μερίδων λαβεῖν, καὶ οὗτοσ εἵλετο τοὺσ φαρμακοτρίβασ καὶ τὴν οἰκίσκην· (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 17:1)
  • φανερὸν οὖν ἐν τούτων ὅτι ἐνδέχεται ἐχθροὺσ καὶ φίλουσ καὶ ὄντασ ἀποδεικνύναι καὶ μὴ ὄντασ ποιεῖν καὶ φάσκοντασ διαλύειν, καὶ δι’ ὀργὴν ἢ δι’ ἔχθραν ἀμφισβητοῦντασ ἐφ’ ὁποτέραν ἂν προαιρῆταί τισ ἄγειν. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 4 32:1)
  • ὁποτέραν δ’ ἂν οὗτοι βουληθῶσι τῶν αἱρέσεων, ἑλέσθωσαν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 11, chapter 29 5:3)

Synonyms

  1. which of two

  2. either of two

  3. in which of two ways

Related

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

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