ὁπότε,
Epic dialect ὁππότε, both in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Ionic dialect ὁκότε; Cyrenaic ὁπόκᾰ [[ “Berl.Sitzb.” 1927.164 ] Refs]; in Doric dialect Poets ὁππόκᾰ [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 5.98: ] Refs 3rd c.BC+] adverb of Time, correlated to πότε, used much like{ὅτε}, except that the sense is less definite [[compare (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.3), though the two were frequently used without distinction: ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I Relat., with the indicative, mostly with reference to the past, when, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.399, 3.173, etc.; the _indicative_ ἦστε is omitted, 8.230: in Class. _Attic dialect_ Prose only ὅτε is so used, when referring to a particular time, but later ὁπότε returns, as ὁπότε περιῆν] Refs 8th c.BC+] when she was alive, [[ “POxy.” 243.10 (1st c.AD)] Refs 1st c.AD+]: with the present in a simile, ὡς δ᾽ ὁπότε.. ποταμὸς πεδίονδε κάτεισι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.492 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: with subjunctive, like{ὁπόταν}, with reference to an indefinite number of occasions in the present or to the future, ὁππότ᾽ Ἀχαιοὶ Τρώων ἐκπέρσωσ᾽ εὖ ναιόμενον πτολίεθρον [[ 1.163, compare 13.817, 21.112, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.170, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 782: sometimes in similes, ὡς ὁπότε νέφεα Ζέφυρος στυφελίξῃ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.305, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.335 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; but ὁπότ᾽ ἄν, Epic dialect ὁπότε or ὁππότε κεν, is more common with subjunctive, and in Attic dialect Prose ἄν must be used, see at {ὁπόταν}: Cyrenaic ὁπόκα κα δήληται [[ “Berl.Sitzb.” [prev. cited] ] Refs]