ὅπου

ὅπου, [dialect] Ion. [full] ὅκου, Relat., indirect interrog., and indef. Adv. of Place, correlat. to ποῦ:

I as a Relat., sts. c. gen. loci,

τῆς πόλεως ὅπου κάλλιστον στρατοπεδεύσασθαι Pl.R.415d

, cf. Hdt.2.172 ;

ὅπου βούλοιτο τοῦ δρόμου X.HG2.4.27

;

ἔσθ' ὅπου

in some places,

A.Eu.517

(lyr.), Fr.302 : standing for the Relat. Adj., μέλη, ὅπου (i. e. ἐν οἷς)

χελιδὼν ἦν τις ἐμπεποιημένη Ar.Av.1301

: with other Particles,

ὅκου δή

somewhere or other,

Hdt.3.129

; ὅπου ἄν wherever, with subj., IG 12.76.11, etc.; in Trag. the ἄν may be omitted, as ὅπου δ' Ἀπόλλων σκαιὸς ᾖ, τίνες σοφοί; E.El.972, etc. (never in [dialect] Att. Prose): c. gen.,

ὅπου ἂν τύχῃ τῶν λεγομένων Pl.Prt.342e

;

ὁπουοῦν

anywheresoever,

Id.Cra.403c

; ὅπουπερ c. opt., wherever, X.Cyr.3.3.5 ;

ὅπου ποτέ S.OC 12

; ὁπουδάν, = ὅπου δὲ ἄν, anywhere, D.C.Fr.109.21 ; ὁπουδήποτε, = ubicumque, Dosith.p.410 K. ;

ὁπουδηποτοῦν

anywheresoever,

J.Ap. 2.15

.

2 in indirect questions,

ὄφρα πύθηαι πατρός, ὅπου κύθε γαῖα Od.3.16

, cf. 16.306, S.OT924, etc.: with Verbs of motion in pregnant sense,

ὅκου ἐτράπετο, οὐκέτι εἶχον εἰπεῖν Hdt.2.119

;

κεῖνος δ' ὅπου βέβηκεν, οὐδεὶς οἶδε S.Tr.40

, v.l. in X.Cyr.3.1.37, etc.: in many passages editors have in this sense restd. ὅποι, mostly from codd. ; in repeating a question, ἡ Λακεδαίμων ποῦ 'στιν; Answ. ὅπου 'στίν; (do you ask) where it is? Ar.Nu.214 : c. gen.,

εἰδότες ὅκου γῆς εἴη Hdt.4.150

, cf. Pl.R.403e.

II the strict local sense occasionally passes into,

1 a sense involving Time or Occasion,

ὅ. τιν' ἴδῃ Thgn.922

, cf. 999, X.HG3.3.6 ;

σιγᾶν θ' ὅ. δεῖ καὶ λέγειν τὰ καίρια A.Ch.582

, cf. Eu.277 ; οὐκ ἔσθ' ὅ. there is no case in which, i.e. in no case. S.OT448, Aj.1069, E.HF186, D.3.35 ; so ἔστιν ὅ.; as a question, Id.18.22.

2 of Cause, whereas, Hdt.1.68, 4.195, Antipho 1.7;

ὅ. γὰρ ἐγὼ . . ὁμολογῶ D.21.205

; ὅκου γε, Lat. quandoquidem or quippe, Hdt.7.118 ;

ὅπου γε X.Cyr.2.3.11

, etc.

B later as a demonstr. Adv., only in the phrase ὅ. μέν . . , ὅ. δέ . . here . . , there . . , Plu.2.427c, S.E.P.1.53, etc.