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ποσός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ποσός ποσή ποσόν

Structure: πος (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of a certain quantity or magnitude

Declension

First/Second 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

  • εἰσφορὰσ λογίζῃ πόσασ; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 12 1:13)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐγὼ οἶδ’ ὅπερ μάλιστα λυπεῖ αὐτόν, ὅτι μὴ τὰ γλίσχρα ἐκεῖνα καὶ λεπτὰ κάθημαι πρὸσ αὐτὸν σμικρολογούμενοσ, εἰ ἀθάνατοσ ἡ ψυχή, καὶ πόσασ κοτύλασ ὁ θεὸσ ὁπότε τὸν κόσμον εἰργάσατο τῆσ ἀμιγοῦσ καὶ κατὰ ταὐτὰ ἐχούσησ οὐσίασ ἐνέχεεν εἰσ τὸν κρατῆρα ἐν ᾧ τὰ πάντα ἐκεράννυτο, καὶ εἰ ἡ Ῥητορικὴ πολιτικῆσ μορίου εἴδωλον, κολακείασ τὸ τέταρτον. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 34:3)
  • ιβ Περὶ τοῦ ἐπὶ πόσον τῆσ ἡμέρασ προακτέον τὰσ κύνασ, καὶ πόσασ καὶ ποίασ ἐν ταὐτῷ λυτέον. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter pr14)
  • ισ ̔15̓ Περὶ διαστήματοσ, ἀφ̓ ὅτου δεῖ τῷ λαγῷ ἐπιλύειν τὰσ κύνασ, καὶ πόσασ ταύτασ. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter pr18)
  • πῶσ οὖν ἂν διετέθη καὶ πόσασ ἔθυσεν ἡμέρασ, εἰ Κράσσοσ ἐκ Βαβυλῶνοσ ἔγραψε νικᾶν, εἶτ’ ἐπελθὼν Μηδίαν, Περσίδα, Ὑρκανούσ, Σοῦσα, Βάκτρα, Ῥωμαίων ἐπαρχίασ ἀπέδειξεν ; (Plutarch, Comparison of Nicias and Crassus, chapter 4 4:1)

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

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