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ὅσος,
Epic dialect ὅσσος, η, ον, both forms in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus and 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὅσσος also in [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 864 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; and in many dialects, e. g. Lesb., [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Oxy.” 1788 “fragment” 15] Refs 7th c.BC+] ii 18 (ὄσσος), argument, [[ “IG” 4.748.5 (Troezen, 4th c.BC), Thess., [prev. work] 9(2).517.19, +others] Refs 4th c.BC+]; Central Cretan dialect ὄζος [[ “GDI” 5090 (from Lyttos), +others] Refs], and ὄττος [[[prev. work]5000 (from Gortyn): Relat. and indirect _interrogative_ ] Refs] adjective:—of Size, as great as, how great; of Quantity, as much as, how much; of Space, as far as, how far; of Time, as long as, how long; of Number, as many as, how many; of Sound, as loud as, how loud: correlative with τόσος (τόσσος), τοσόσδε, τοσοῦτος, in sense as, τόσσον χρόνον ὅσσον ἄνωγας [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.670, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.169; τόσονδ᾽, ὅσον.. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 286 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τοσοῦτον ὄχλον καὶ παρασκευήν, ὅσην.. [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.35: sometimes with πᾶς or ἅπας] Refs 4th c.BC+] as antecedent, χῶρον ἅπαντα ὅσσον.. [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.190; ἐκ πασέων, ὅσσαι.. 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.723; πάντα μάλ᾽ ὅσσα.. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.115; τοὺς πάντας.., ὅσοι.. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 976, etc.; also ὅσων.. ψαύοιμι, πάντων τῶνδ᾽ ἀεὶ μετειχέτην 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1464: with ἴσος,] Refs 8th c.BC+] just so much as, ἐμοὶ δ᾽ ἴσον τῇς χώρας μέτα, ὅσονπερ ὑμῖν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 174, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.44: frequently without antecedent, τῆς ἦ τοι φωνὴ μὲν ὅση σκύλακος νεογιλῆς 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.86, compare 10.113, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀσπίδες ὅσσαι ἄρισται [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.371, compare 75, 18.512 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; agreeing with an antecedent implied in an adjective, γυναικείας ἀρετῆς, ὅσαι.. the virtue of all the women, who.., [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.45, compare ὅς 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 1.1: the ] Refs 5th c.BC+] substantive frequently precedes, where we put it in the Relat. clause, οὐδέ τι οἶδε πένθεος[[ (about the woe), ὅσσον ὄρωρε 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.658 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὁρᾷς.. τὴν θεῶν ἰσχύν, ὅση [ἐστί]; [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 118 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὦ Ζεῦ.., τὸ χρῆμα τῶν κόπων ὅσον! [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1278 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ χρῆμα τῶν νυκτῶν ὅσον· ἀπέραντον! [[ [prev. author] “Nu.” 2: and sometimes it is attracted to the case of the antecedent, εὐτραφέστατον πωμάτων ὅσων ἵησιν (for ὅσα) 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 309 (Lyric poetry); joined with οἷος, ὅσσος ἔην οἷός τε 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.630; so ὅσσοι τε καὶ οἵτινες 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.236: repeated in the same clause, τὸ δὲ ὅσον μέτρον ὅσοις [μειγνύμενον]] Refs 8th c.BC+] the quantities of the first ingredient and the others, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 68b; γαίης ὅσσης ὅσσον ἔχει μόριον “Anthologia Graeca” 7.740 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus): perhaps sometimes followed by a participle for a finite Verb, ὅσοι συμπαρεπόμενοι (assuming variant) 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 11.12, compare “HG” 6.1.10. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
Close Browse lexicon entries __2 with a partitive genitive in the principal clause, Τρώων θάνον ὅσσοι ἄριστοι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.13; ἄριστοι ἵππων, ὅσσοι ἔασιν 5.267; Περσῶν ὅσοιπερ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 441 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; οὔ τις.. ὀνόσσεται, ὅσσοι Ἀχαιοί of all the Achaeans, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.55 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; [τῶν στρατειῶν] ὅσαι τε καὶ μὴ ἐπικίνδυνοι which are and which are not.., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 467d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; on τῶν ὅσοι, see ὁ, ἡ, τό [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 111. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__3 of Time, ὅσαι ἡμέραι, ὅσα ἔτη, etc., see at {ὁσημέραι}.
__4 with τις, in indirect questions, ἰδώμεθα.. ὅσσος τις χρυσὸς.. ἔνεστιν [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.45; ὅσον τι δένδρον.. γίνεται 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.193 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὅσον τι ἐστί[[ [prev. work] 185; ὅσοι τινὲς ἐόντες.. [prev. author] 7.102, etc. ] Refs]
__5 with accusative of extent, λίμνη.. μέγαθος, ὅσηπερ ἡ ἐν Δήλῳ in size as large as that in Delos, [[ [prev. author] 2.170, compare 175, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 423b. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__6 with adjectives expressing Quantity, etc., both words being put in the same case, [πίθηκοι] ἄφθονοι ὅσοι.. γίνονται, i. e. in amazing numbers, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.194 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὄχλος ὑπερφυὴς ὅσος prodigiously large, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 750; χρήματα θαυμαστὰ ὅσα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hp.Ma.” 282c, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Halc.” 5, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀπλάτων ὅσων, ἀμύθητα ὅσα, [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.3,91 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, compare 1st c.AD: Cornutus Philosophus “de Natura Deorum” 9; ὀλίγους ὅσους τῶν κοφίνων 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Alex.” 1; ἐτόλμησαν ἐπιφύεσθαι ἡμεῖν πλεῖστοι ὅσοι “SIG” 888.65 (Thrace, 3rd c.AD)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μετὰ ἱδρῶτος θαυμαστοῦ ὅσου [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 350d; διὰ μυρίων ὅσων 3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor 1.1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: frequently in adverbial construction, θαυμαστὸν ὅσον ἐπιδιδόντες [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 150d; θ. ὅσον διαφέρει [prev. author] “La.” 184c; ἀμηχάνῳ δὴ ὅσῳ πλείονι [prev. author] “R.” 588a; τυτθὸν ὅσσον ἄπωθεν 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 1.45; βαιὸν ὅσον παραβάς “Anthologia Graeca” 12.227 (2nd c.AD: Strato Epigrammaticus). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__7 with superlative, ὅσας ἂν πλείστας δύνωνται καταστρέφεσθαι τῶν πολίων the most they possibly could.., [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.44, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.21 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also ὅσον τάχος as quickly as possible, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 727 (more frequently ὅσον τάχιστα, see infr. IV. 4)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅσον σθένος with all possible strength, [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 1.42, 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.589. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__8 with infinitive, so much as is enough for.., ὅσον ἀποζῆν enough to live off, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.2; ἐλείπετο τῆς νυκτὸς ὅσον.. διελθεῖν τὸ πεδίον 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.1.5 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; εὐδαιμονίας τοσοῦτον, ὅσον δοκεῖν so much as is enough for appearance, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1191 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.49, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 416e, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II for ὅτι τοσοῦτος (see. οἷος [[ 11.2, 3, ὅς 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus IV. 3), 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.75, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 74, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__III followed by Particles:
__III.1 ὅσος ἄν (κεν) how great (many) soever, with subjunctive, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.66, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__III.2 ὅσος δή of such and such a size or number (but in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus merely strengthened for ὅσος, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.487, +others), κήρυγμα ἐποιήσατο.., ζημίην τοῦτον ὀφείλειν, ὅσην δὴ εἴπας] Refs 8th c.BC+] naming such and such an amount, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.52 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπέταξε τοῖσι.. ἔθνεσι γυναῖκας.. κατιστάναι, ὅσας δὴ ἐπιτάσσων ordering such and such a number, [[[prev. work] 159 ] Refs]; παρεσκευάζοντο ἐπὶ μισθῷ ὅσῳ δή for payment of a certain amount, [[ [prev. author] 1.160; σιτία παρακαταλιπόντες ὅσων δὴ μηνῶν [prev. author] 4.151; so ὅσος δή κοτε [prev. author] 1.157 ] Refs]; ὁσοσδηποτοῦν, in plural, any number whatsoever, [[ 3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra 9.9, +others, 2nd c.BC: Agatharchides Geographus 34; ὁσοσδηοῦν ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]however large, [[ 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 3.119a; ὅσος δή τις 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 2.45, 4.60. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__III.3 ὁσοσοῦν, Ionic dialect -ῶν, ever so small, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.199 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: in plural, however many, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1265a41; see infr. IV. 6. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__III.4 ὅσοσπερ, precisely as great as, τοῦ μὲν χειμῶνός ἐστι [ὁ Ἴστρος] ὅσοσπέρ ἐστι of its normal size, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.50, compare 2.170 ] Refs 5th c.BC+], etc.: in plural, as many as, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 475, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 423, 441; ἔθνεα πάντα ὅσαπερ ἦγε 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.87; ἅπαντα.., ὅσαπέρ γ᾽ ἔφασκον, κἄτι πολλῷ πλείονα 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 806: but ὅσοσπερ can frequently hardly be distinguished from ὅσος, see above 1.2, 5, infr. IV. 1, 3, and 7 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; and this is still more the case with Epic dialect ὅσος τε (compare ὅστε), [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.113, +others ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__IV Adverbial usages of ὅσον and ὅσα:
__IV.1 so far as, so much as, οὐ μέντοι ἐγὼ τόσον αἴτιός εἰμι, ὅσσον οἱ ἄλλοι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.371: with ] Refs 8th c.BC+]infinitive, ὅσον αὔξειν ἢ καθαιρεῖν so far as to.., [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1376a34: in parenthesis, with ] Refs 4th c.BC+]infinitive, ὅσον γέ μ᾽ εἰδέναι as far as I know, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1252, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 145a, compare 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 2.59 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; so μακραίων γ᾽, ὅσ᾽ ἀπεικάσαι conjecture in [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 152 (Lyric poetry); ὅσον ἐς Ἑλλάδα γλῶσσαν ἀπὸ Λατίνης μεταβαλεῖν 2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Bella Civilia” 4.11 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: but more frequently with indicative, ὅσσον ἔγωγε γιγνώσκω [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.222, compare 20.360; so ὅσονπερ ἂν σθένω 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 946; ὅσα γε.. ἦν εἰκάσαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.46; ὅσον δυνατόν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 196d, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὅσον καθ᾽ ἕν᾽ ἄνδρα so far as was in one man's power, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.153; ὅσον τὸ σὸν μέρος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1509: with _genitive_, ὅσον γε δυνάμεως παρ᾽ ἐμοί ἐστι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 422c, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1239; also ὅσα ἐγὼ μέμνημαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.1.21; οἱ πατέρες, ὅσα ἄνθρωποι, οὐκ ἀμαθεῖς ἔσονται 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 467c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅσα γε τἀνθρώπεια humanly speaking, [[ [prev. author] “Cri.” 47a. ] Refs]
__IV.1.b how far, how much, ἴστε γὰρ ὅσσον ἐμοὶ ἀρετῇ περιβάλλετον ἵπποι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.276; μαθήσεται ὅσον τό τ᾽ ἄρχειν καὶ τὸ δουλεύειν δίχα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 927 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: with adjectives, how, ὅσον or ὅσσον.. μέγ᾽ ὄνειαρ, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 41, 346; ὅσ᾽ ἤπειρος πολλὰ τρέφει [prev. author] “Th.” 582. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__IV.2 only so far as, only just, ὅσον ἐς Σκαιάς τε πύλας καὶ φηγὸν ἵκανεν [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.354; ὅσον ἐκ Φοινίκης ἐς Κρήτην 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.45; φιλοσοφίας, ὅσον παιδείας χάριν, μετέχειν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 485a, compare “R.” 403d; οὐδὲν ἡδέως ποιεῖ γὰρ οὗτος, ἀλλ᾽ ὅσον νόμου χάριν 4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus 43.14, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1076a27, +others ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὅσον καὶ ἀπὸ βοῆς ἕνεκα ὠργίζετο, opposed to τῷ ἀληθεῖ ἐχαλέπαινον, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.92: so, more fully, ὅσον μοῦνον 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.20, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.105, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 607a, etc.; or μόνον ὅσον [prev. author] “Lg.” 778c; ἐγὼ μέν μιν οὐκ εἶδον εἰ μὴ ὅσον γραφῇ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.73, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.3.20; σιτάρια μικρὰ προσφέρων οἴνου θ᾽ ὅσον ὀσμήν 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 98.3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τί οὐκ ἀπεκοιμήθημεν ὅ. ὅ. στίλη; [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 213; ἢ ὅσον ὅσσον στιγμή “Anthologia Graeca” 7.472 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus), compare 5.254 (Paul. Sil.)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπαναγαγεῖν ὅ. ὅ. [[ NT.Luke.5.3 (codex D, variant{ὀλίγον})] NT]; ὅσον· ὀλίγον, ὅσον ὅσον δέ, ὀλίγον ὀλίγον, [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus ] Refs 5th c.AD+]; παρ᾽ ὅσον ἧττον a little less, [[ 2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus 631.17 (= παρ᾽ ὀλίγον ἧττον, Scholia) ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; οὐδ᾽ ὅσον not even, οὐδ᾽ ὅ. ἀττάραγόν τυ δεδοίκαμες [[ 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Epigrammata” 47.9 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]: absolutely, not the least mite, [[ [prev. author] “Ap.” 37, 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.181, 190; οὐδέ περ ὅσσον [prev. author] 3.519; οὐδ᾽ ὅσον ὅσσον 4th-3rd c.BC: Philetas 7 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; cf. IV. 5.
__IV.3 of size or distance, ὅσον τε about, nearly, ὅσον τ᾽ ὄργυιαν, ὅσον τε πυγούσιον, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.325, 10.517; ὅσον τ᾽ ἐπὶ ἥμισυ 13.114, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.351; ὅσον τε δέκα στάδια 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.57; ξύλα ὅσον τε διπήχεα [prev. author] 2.96, compare 78; so ὅσονπερ τρία στάδια [prev. author] 9.51 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; in Attic dialect ὅσον alone, ὅσον δύο πλέθρα [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.38; ὅσον δύ᾽ ἢ τρία στάδια 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 229c; ὅσον παρασάγγην 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.28 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; so of other measurements, ὅσον τριχοίνικον ἄρτον [[ [prev. author] “An.” 7.3.23. ] Refs]
__IV.4 with adjectives of Quality or Degree, mostly with comparative, αἴθ᾽, ὅσον ἥσσων εἰμί, τόσον σέο φέρτερος εἴην [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.722, compare 1.186 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὅσσον βασιλεύτερός εἰμι so far as, inasmuch as I am a greater king, [[ 9.160: and with _superlative_, γνώσετ᾽.., ὅσον εἰμὶ θεῶν κάρτιστος 8.17, compare 1.516, etc.: with Advs., ὅσον τάχιστα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 772, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1103, “El.” 1433; ὅσον μάλιστα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 524; ὅσα ἐδύνατο μ. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.185. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__IV.5 with negatives, ὅσον οὐ or ὁσονού just not, all but[[ (cf. IV. 2), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.36, 5.59, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅσον οὐκ ἤδη almost immediately, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 141 (_anapaest meter_), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.96; later ὅσον ἤδη 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.4.4, 8.34.8; ὅσον οὔπω 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 1076, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.125, 6.34: ὅσον οὐδέπω] Refs 5th c.BC+] with future, presently, in a minute, [[ 2nd c.AD: Nicomachus Gerasenus Mathematicus “Arithmetica Introductio” 1.8, 3rd c.AD: Heliodorus Scriptor Eroticus 2.31, +others ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__IV.5.b οὐχ ὅσον οὐκ ἠμύναντο, ἀλλ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ἐσώθησαν not only not.., but not even, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.62. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__IV.5.c ὅσον μή so far as not, save or except so far as, καλός τε κἀγαθὸς τὴν φύσιν, ὅσον μὴ ὑβριστής (sic to be read) [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 273a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅσον γ᾽ ἂν αὐτὸς μὴ ποτιψαύων so far as I can without touching.., [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1214; ὅσον μὴ χερσὶ καίνων [prev. author] “OT” 347; ὅσα μή 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.111, 4.16 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: sometimes with a finite Verb, πείθεσθαι.., ὅσον ἂν μὴ ἀνάγκη ᾖ [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 21.4, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 83a; compare ὅ τι 11. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__IV.6 ὁσονοῦν, Ionic dialect ὁσονῶν, ever so little, εἰ τοίνυν ἐχιόνιζε καὶ ὁσονῶν [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.22; so ἐφ᾽ ὁσονοῦν 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 6.7.5, 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “in Nicomachi arithmeticam introductionem” p.14 P. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__IV.7 ὅσα and ὅσαπερ, just like{ὡς, ὥσπερ}, as, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.5.12, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “VH” 1.24, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__V ὅσῳ, ὅσῳπερ, by how much, frequently with comparative, ὅσῳ πλέον ἥμισυ παντός [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 40; ὅσῳ κρείττω 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 488.3; ὅσῳ ἂν πλεονάκις εἰσίῃς 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.3.14 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: with superlative, διέδεξε, ὅσῳ ἐστὶ τοῦτο ἄριστον [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.82, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 59, 1050. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__V.2 ὅσῳ with comparative when followed by another comparative with τοσούτῳ, the more.., so much the more.., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.5.80; ὅ. μᾶλλον πιστεύω, τοσούτῳ μᾶλλον ἀπορῶ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 368b: with τοσούτῳ omitted, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1419, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 792 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: sometimes a superlative replaces the comparative, ὅσῳ μάλιστα ἐλεύθεροι.., τοσούτῳ καὶ θρασύτατα [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.84, compare 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 7.39 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅσῳ alone, ἑωυτοὺς δὲ γενέσθαι τοσούτῳ.., ἀμείνονας, ὅσῳ.. [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.137, compare 5.49, 8.13; νιν τῶνδε πλεῖστον ᾤκτισα.., ὅσῳπερ καὶ φρονεῖν οἶδεν μόνη 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 313, compare “OC” 743. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__VI ἐς ὅσον, ἐφ᾽ ὅσον, καθ᾽ ὅσον are frequently used much like{ὅσον, εἰς ὅσον σθένω} [[ [prev. author] “Ph.” 1403 (troch.); ἐφ᾽ ὅσον ἐδύνατο 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.4; εἰς ὅσον δύνανται 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 607a; καθ᾽ ὅσον δυνατόν [prev. author] “Ti.” 51b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐφ᾽ ὅσον ἐστὶν δυνατός as far as he can, [[ “IG” 22.903.11 (2nd c.BC)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; later of Time, ἐς ὅσον δύναμίς μοι ὑπῆρχεν as long as.. [[ POxy. 899.8 (2nd-3rd c.AD)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ἐφ᾽ ὅσον περιῆσαν as long as they lived, Mitteis [[ “Chr.” 31i23 (2nd c.BC). ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__VI.2 ἐν ὅσῳ while, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 943 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.87. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__VII no adverb ὅσως occurs.
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