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ὅσος

Pronoun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὅσος ὅση ὅσον

Structure: ὁς (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: like Lat.

Sense

  1. (relative adjective) (often as anaphor to τόσος, or πᾶς, ἅπας) as much as, how much
  2. (followed by particles) (ὅσος ἄν) how ever great
  3. (ὅσος δή) how great, how ever many
  4. (ὁσοσοῦν) ever so small
  5. (ὅσοσπερ) even so great as, no greater than
  6. (adverbial usages) so far as, so much as
  7. (ὅσῳ, ὅσῳ περ, often with comparative) by how much
  8. (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.

Examples

  • 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)

Synonyms

  1. so far as

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