ὅμως,
conjunction (from ὁμῶς, with changed accent), all the same, nevertheless, used to limit whole clauses, once in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] (unless it is read in [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.565), Σαρπήδοντι δ᾽ ἄχος γένετο.., ὅ. δ᾽ οὐ λήθετο χάρμης 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.393; ὅ. πιθοῦ μοι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1064, compare “Ant.” 519 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; κοὐκ ἐπίδηλος ὅ. and yet not so as to be observed, [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 442; νῦν δὲ ὅ. θαρρῶ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 193e, etc.: frequently strengthened by other words, ἀλλ᾽ ὅ.] Refs 6th c.BC+] but still, but for all that, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.85, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1085, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅ. μήν (Doric dialect μάν) [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 2.82, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 297d; ὅ. μέντοι [prev. author] “Cri.” 54d; ὅ. γε μήν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 631, 822; ὅ. γε μέντοι [prev. author] “V.” 1344, “Ra.” 61: used elliptically, πάντως μὲν οἴσεις οὐδὲν ὑγιές, ἀλλ᾽ ὅ. (i.e. οἰστέον) [prev. author] “Ach.” 956, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 843, “Ba.” 1027 (probably). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II frequently in apodosi after καὶ εἰ (κεἰ) or καὶ ἐάν (κἄν), κεἰ τὸ μηδὲν ἐξερῶ, φράσω δ᾽ ὅ. [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 234, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 933; but ὅ., though it belongs in sense to the apodosis, is frequently closely attached to the protasis, μέμνησ᾽ Ὀρέστου, κεἰ θυραῖός ἐσθ᾽ ὅ., i.e. κεἰ θ. ἐστι, ὅμως μέμνησο, [prev. work] 115 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; λέξον.., κεἰ στένεις ὅ., i.e. κεἰ στένεις, ὅ. λέξον, [[ [prev. author] “Pers.” 295; κἂν ἄποπτος ᾖς ὅ., φώνημ᾽ ἀκούω 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 15 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: sometimes it even stands in the protasis, ἐρημία με, κεἰ δίκαι᾽ ὅ. λέγω, σμικρὸν τίθησι [[ [prev. author] “OC” 957; ἐγὼ μὲν εἴην, κεἰ πέφυχ᾽ ὅ. λάτρις, ἐν τοῖσι γενναίοισιν ἠριθμημένος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 728. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]