ὁπόσος

ὁπόσος, [dialect] Ep. [full] ὁππόσος Od.14.47, [full] ὁπόσσος 22.220, Il.23.238 (also [full] ὁπόσος 24.7), [full] ὁπόσσος also Berl.Sitzb.1927.160 ([place name] Cyrene), IG42(1).121.109 (Epid., iv B. C.); [dialect] Ion. [full] ὁκόσος; Cret. and [dialect] Boeot. [full] ὁπόττος Leg.Gort.4.40, al., IG7.522.19 (iii B. C.), etc.: correlat. to πόσος: freq. in IG12, but replaced by ὅσος in [dialect] Att. Inscrr. after 300 B.C. :

I as Relat., like ὅσος, of Number, as many, as many as . . ,

ὁπόσα τολύπευσε σὺν αὐτῷ Il.24.7

;

πᾶσι θεοῖς . . , ὁπόσοι τὴν Διὸς αὐλὴν εἰσοιχνεῦσιν A. Pr.121

(anap.), cf. 411, Th.927 (both lyr.);

τοσαῦτα ὁπόσα σοι φίλον Pl.Lg.642d

;

ὁπόσους πλείστους ἐδυνάμην X.Cyr.4.5.29

, etc. : in Prose freq. ὁ. ἄν with subj., ὁπόσοις ἂν δοκῇ Foed. ap. Th.4.118, cf. Pl.Sph. 245d, etc.

2 of Quantity, as much as, of Size or Space, as great as, ὁπόσσον ἐπέσχε as far as it spread, Il.23.238 ; χθόνα . . , ὁπόσαν καὶ φθιμένοισιν κατέχειν as much as is allowed the dead to occupy, A. Th.732 (lyr.);

ὁπόσην τῆς χώρας X.Oec.4.8

: Adverbial in dat.,

ὁπόσῳ πλέον . . , τοσούτῳ πλειόνων κτλ. Pl.Lg.649b

.

3 with indefinite Particles added, ὁποσοσοῦν how great or much soever, Th.4.37,6.56, Pl.Sph. 245d : [dialect] Ion. dat. pl.,

ὁκόσῃσι ὦν Hdt.5.20

; so

ὁπόσῳ δήποτε D.21.39

;

ὁποσοιδηποτοῦν Euc.9.12

, al. ;

ὁπόσοσπερ Pl.Lg.753b

, X.Oec.4.5 ;

ὁποσουτινοσοῦν

for however large a price,

Lys.22.15

.

II in indirect questions,

ὄφρα . . εἴπῃς ὁππόσα κήδε' ἀνέτλης Od.14.47

;

ὁπόσαι ψάμαθοι κλονέονται, καθορᾷς Pi.P.9.46

;

εἰπὲ . . ὁκόσοι τοιοῦτοι [εἰσί] Hdt.7.234

; διαλογισώμεθα . . ὁπόσα . . πέφανται how many things he has been found to be, Pl.Sph.231d ;

ἠρώτων τὸ στράτευμα, ὁπόσον εἴη X.An.4.4.17

, cf. Pl.Sis.388e ; ἤρετο ὁπόσου asked for how much, at what price, Timocl.11.9.

III = ὅς, Paus.9.31.5.