STEP Liddell–Scott–Jones: ὀπίσω

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ὀπίσω [ῐ],

Epic dialect ὀπίσσω, the former rare in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus and only in signification 1 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Aeolic dialect ὐπίσσω [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 8.9 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]:— adverb:

__I of Place, backwards, opposed to to πρόσω, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.272 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; to προπρηνές,[[ 3.218; ἀνεχάζετο τυτθὸν ὀπίσσω 5.443; ἀ. πολλὸν ὀ. 16.710; πάλιν εἶσιν ὀπίσσω 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.149: in Prose also, τὸ ὀπίσω,] Refs 8th c.BC+] contraction τοὐπίσω, τὸ ὀ. φεύγειν [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.207, compare 8.108; ἄναγε εἰς τοὐπίσω 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 528a, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.4, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Fragmenta” 106, etc.; [γνάμ]φθη δ᾽ ὀπίσσω [φάσγα]νον 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 12.53 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ ὀ. the hinder parts, [[ LXX.Joel.2.20; τοῦ προπύλου τὸ ὀ. μέρος “SIG” 756.17 (Athens, 1st c.BC); τὴν ὀ. τοῦ προπύλου στέγην [prev. work]12; ἐκ τοῦ ὀ.] LXX+1st c.BC+] on the back (of the papyrus), [[ “BGU” 1002.16 (1st c.BC)] Refs 1st c.BC+]; τἀπίλοιπα ὀ. [[ “PTeb.” 58.37 (2nd c.BC). ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]

__I.2 back, back again, of movement, ἀπήνυσαν οἴκαδ᾽ ὀπίσσω [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.326; ὀπίσω πάλιν οἴκαδε 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 3.62; ἂψ ὀ. 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 25.74; ἀπίκοντο ὀ. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.62; ὀ. πορευόμενοι [prev. work] 75; ὀ. ἀναπλῶσαι [prev. work] 78 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐν τῇ ὀ. κομιδῇ on his way back, [[ [prev. author] 8.120, compare 1.111, etc. ] Refs]

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__II of Time, hereafter, since the future is unseen and was therefore regarded as behind us, whereas the past is known and therefore before our eyes, ἡμῖν τεκέεσσί τ᾽ ὀπίσσω πῆμα λίποιτο [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.160 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Τρῳαὶ δέ μ᾽ ὀπίσσω πᾶσαι μωμήσονται[[ [prev. work] 411, compare 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 741, “Th.” 488; ἔς περ ὀπίσσω 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.199 (εἰσοπίσω 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1104 (Lyric poetry)); opposed to to νῦν, τούτῳ δ᾽ οὔτ᾽ ἂρ νῦν φρένες ἔμπεδοι [εἰσίν], οὔτ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ὀπίσσω ἔσσονται 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.352; to προπάροιθε, σεῖο δ᾽, Ἀχιλλεῦ, οὔ τις ἀνὴρ προπάροιθε [ἦν] μακάρτατος, οὔτ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ὀπίσσω [ἔσσεται] 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.483 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; where ὀπίσσω and πρόσσω are opposed, πρόσσω must be the past and ὀπίσσω the future, οἶδε νοῆσαι ἅμα πρόσσω καὶ ὀπίσσω [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.343; ἅμα πρόσσω καὶ ὀ. λεύσσει 3.109; ὅρα πρόσσω καὶ ὀ. 18.250, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.452; so ὅσα τ᾽ ἦν ὅσα τ᾽ ἔσθ᾽ ὅσα τ᾽ ἔσται ὀπίσσω 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 21.9 (cited in 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1000a30)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; οὔτ᾽ ἐνθάδ᾽ ὁρῶν οὔτ᾽ ὀπίσω neither present nor future, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 488 (Lyric poetry); τοὐπίσω σκοπεῖν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 49; θνητὸς πεφυκὼς τοὐπίσω πειρῶ βλέπειν Isidorus Tragicus 2; compare ὄπισθεν 11.1. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]