ὅσος?
Pronoun;
Transliteration: hosos
Principal Part:
ὅσος
ὅση
ὅσον
Structure:
ὁς
(Stem)
+
ος
(Ending)
Etym.: like Lat.
Sense
- (relative adjective) (often as anaphor to τόσος, or πᾶς, ἅπας) as much as, how much
- (followed by particles) (ὅσος ἄν) how ever great
- (ὅσος δή) how great, how ever many
- (ὁσοσοῦν) ever so small
- (ὅσοσπερ) even so great as, no greater than
- (adverbial usages) so far as, so much as
- (ὅσῳ, ὅσῳ περ, often with comparative) by how much
- (ἐν ὅσῳ) while
Declension
The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.
Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.
- πολλὰ δὲ καὶ ἄλλα πρὸς τούτοις διεξελθών, ὅσα καὶ κοινῇ καὶ ἰδίᾳ τοῖς ἐπιφανεστάτοις αὐτῶν ἐπράχθη κατὰ τοὺς πολέμους λαμπρὰ ἔργα, καὶ ὅσης αἰσχύνης ἄξια δράσουσι, καὶ ὡς καὶ διαβληθήσονται παρὰ τοῖς Ἕλλησιν, ἐπιλογισάμενος καὶ ὅτι πάντοθεν αὐτοῖς ἐπικουρία τις ἔσται τὸν ἀγῶνα ποιουμένοις καὶ παρὰ θεῶν καὶ παρὰ συμμάχων καὶ παρὰ πάντων ἀνθρώπων, οἷς ἐπίφθονος ἡ Θηβαίων δύναμις αὐξομένη, καὶ τὴν κατέχουσαν ἀκοσμίαν καὶ ταραχὴν τὰς πόλεις ἐπιτροπευόντων τῆς Ἑλλάδος Βοιωτῶν ἐπιδειξάμενος, τελευτῶν, εἰ καὶ μηθὲν τούτων μέλλοι γίνεσθαι μηδ ὑπολείποιτό τις ἄλλη σωτηρίας ἐλπίς, ἐκλιπεῖν κελεύει τὴν πόλιν, διδάσκων αὐτούς, ὡς χρὴ παῖδας μὲν καὶ γυναῖκας καὶ τὸν ἄλλον ὄχλον εἴς τε Σικελίαν ἐκπέμψαι καὶ Ἰταλίαν καὶ τἄλλα χωρία τὰ φίλια, αὐτοὺς δὲ καταλαβομένους τόπον, ὅστις ἂν ὀχυρώτατος ᾖ καὶ πρὸς τὸν πόλεμον ἐπιτηδειότατος, ἄγειν καὶ φέρειν τοὺς πολεμίους καὶ κατὰ γῆν καὶ κατὰ θάλατταν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 9 2:4)
- Οὐκ ᾔδεις, ὅσης ἐδεῖτο ἀκριβείας τὸ πρᾶγμα καὶ ὡς, εἰ βραχύ τις ἐκβαίη τῆς ὁδοῦ, οἴχεται πάντα· (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 2:4)
- Ὅσης δὲ ἐγὼ τρυφῆς. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 4:8)
- "ἀλλὰ ταῦτα μὲν ὅσης ἐστὶ μεστὰ ταραχῆς καὶ μάχης πρὸς ἑαυτά, τί δεῖ λέγειν ἐν τῷ παρόντι· (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 261)
- μάλιστα γινώσκειν, ὁρῶν ὅσης ἀπειθείας γέμοντι καὶ κακίας στρατεύματι χρώμενος οὕτω καλὰς κατώρθωσε καὶ μεγάλας πράξεις, θαυμάζειν δὲ τὸν δῆμον εἰ τοῖς ἀπ Ἰλλυριῶν καὶ Λιγύων ἀγαλλόμενος θριάμβοις αὑτῷ φθονεῖ τὸν Μακεδόνων βασιλέα ζῶντα καὶ τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Φιλίππου δόξαν ἐπιδεῖν ὑπὸ τοῖς Ῥωμαίων ὅπλοις ἀγομένην αἰχμάλωτον. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 31 3:1)
