also [[ 5th c.AD: Cypria, “Inscription Cyprian dialect” 135.1] Refs 5th c.AD+] H., Doric dialect ὅκα, Aeolic dialect ὄτα (which see), Relat. adverb, formed from the Relat. stem ὁ- and τε (see. τε B), answering to demonstrative τότε and interrogative πότ; properly of Time, but sometimes passing into a causal sense (compare ὁπότε).
__A of Time, when, at the time when,
__A.I Constr.:
__A.I.1 with indicative to denote single events or actions in past time, with imperfect or aorist, when, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.397, 432, etc.: rarely with ] Refs 8th c.BC+]pluperfect, [[ 5.392: the Verb is sometimes to be repeated from the apodosis, Καλλίξενος δὲ κατελθών, ὅ. καὶ οἱ ἐκ Πειραιῶς (i.e. κατῆλθον) 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.7.35: frequently in elliptically phrases, πῇ ἔβαν εὐχωλαί, ὅ. δὴ φάμεν εἶναι ἄριστοι] Refs 5th c.BC+]; whither are gone the boasts, [which we made] when we said.. ? [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.229: so after Verbs of perception and the like, ἦ οὐ μέμνῃ, ὅ. τ᾽ ἐκρέμω.. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; rememberest thou not [the time] when.. ? [[ 15.18, compare 21.396, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.115, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 354, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.21, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἄκουσα εὐχομένης ὅτ᾽ ἔφησθα.. [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.397, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 782c; οὐδ᾽ ἔλαθ᾽ Αἴαντα Ζεύς, ὅ. δὴ Τρώεσσι δίδου.. νίκην 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.627. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__A.I.1.b with present, of a thing always happening or now going on,[[ 2.471; νῦν, ὅ... σοι ὀξέως ὑπακούω 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.4.6; ᾔδεα μὲν γὰρ ὅ... Δαναοῖσιν ἄμυνεν, οἶδα δὲ νῦν ὅ. τοὺς.. κυδάνει 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.71. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__A.I.1.c rarely with future, of a definite future, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.272. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__A.I.2 with optative, to denote repeated events or actions in past time, ἔνθα πάρος κοιμᾶθ᾽, ὅ. μιν γλυκὺς ὕπνος ἱκάνοι whenever, as often as, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.610, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.87, etc.; ὅ. δή 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.216. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__A.I.2.b sometimes of future events which are represented as uncertain, in clauses dependent on a Verb in the optative or subjunctive, οὐκ ἄν τοι χραίσμῃ κίθαρις.., ὅτ᾽ ἐν κονίῃσι μιγείης [[ 3.55, compare 18.465, 21.429, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 726. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__A.I.2.c ὅ. μή, in early authors always with optative, for εἰ μή, unless, except, save when, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.319, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.197, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1277a24: used by 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus with ] Refs 8th c.BC+]subjunctive, [[ 1.245, 4.409. ] Refs]
__A.I.3 with subjunctive, only in Epic dialect and Lyric poetry, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.259, 19.337, 21.323, etc., probably in 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 766 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__A.II Special usages:
__A.II.1 in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus to introduce a simile, ὡς δ᾽ ὅτε] Refs 8th c.BC+] as when, mostly with subjunctive, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.147, 4.130, 141, 6.506, +others: sometimes with _indicative_, 16.364, 21.12 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: the Verb must frequently be supplied from the context, as in [[ 2.394, 4.462. ] Refs]
__A.II.2 in the Epic dialect phrase πρίν γ᾽ ὅτε δή.., ἤ is omitted before ὅτε, [[ 9.488, 12.437, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.322. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
