ὀψέ,
Aeolic dialect ὄψι (which see), adverb after a long time, at length, late, ἔκ τε καὶ ὀ. τελεῖ, opposed to αὐτίκα, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.161; ὀ. κακῶς ἔλθοι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.534, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὀ. διδάσκεσθαι, μανθάνειν, to be late in learning, learn too late, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1425, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1264; ὀψέ γε φρονεῖς εὖ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 99; also ὀ. δή 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.399, etc.; ὀ. γοῦν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus [same place]; ὀ. περ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 3.80. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__b ὀ. ἀφ᾽ οὗ.. it is not long since.., [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.14. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 late in the day, at even, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.232, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.272, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.106, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὀφλεῖν.. ὀ. ὁδοῦ incur a penalty for being out late at night, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 433a (uncertain)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; late in the season, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 485 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὀ. ἦν, ὀ. ἐγίγνετο, it was, it was getting, late, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.2.16, 3.4.36 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ μάχη ἐτελεύτα ἐς (variant{ἕως}) ὀ. did not end till late, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.108; so ἐς ὀψέ [prev. author] 8.23 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; but εἰς ὀ. ψηφίζεσθαι continue voting till late in the day, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 57.15. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__3 with genitive, ὀ. τῆς ἡμέρας late in the day, ἤδη γὰρ τῆς ἡμέρας ὀ. ἦν [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.93, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.1.23; τῆς δ᾽ ὥρας ἐγίγνετ᾽ ὀ. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.84 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὀ. τῆς ἡλικίας late in life, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Dem.Enc.” 14, compare “Am.” 37. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]