πολλάκις [ᾰ],
Epic dialect and Lyric poetry πολλάκι, sometimes in Trag. (only Lyric poetry) for the sake of meter, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 227, “Supp.” 131, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1456 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; never in Prose: (πολύς): adverb
__I of Time, many times, often, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.396, etc.; π. καὶ οὐκὶ ἅπαξ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.46; π. τοῦ μηνός 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.2.9; π. ἀγωνοθέτης “Ephes.” 3p.152No. 70. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II of Degree and Number, π. μυρίοι many tens of thousands, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 810d, “Tht.” 175a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of Quantity, [τὴν] οὐσίαν π. τοσαύτην ἐποίησε [[ [prev. author] “R.” 330b ] Refs]; of Size, μεῖζον π. [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.944a. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II.2 τὸ π. mostly, for the most part, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.32 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; very much, altogether, χρὼς ὅμοιος ἐγίνετο πολλάκι θάψῳ [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 2.88; χαίρετε π Μοῖσαι [prev. author] 1.144. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__III in Attic dialect, after conditional particles, perhaps, σεισμὸς εἰ γένοιτο π. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 791 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐάν τι πολλὰ π. πάθω[[ [prev. work] 1105: with ἄρα, ἐὰν ἄρα π. νυμφόληπτος γένωμαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 238d, compare “Phd.” 60e, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 32.3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also μὴ π. lest perchance, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ τῶν ἐν κεφαλη—ͅ τρωμάτων” 14, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.13, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 361c, +others ] Refs 5th c.BC+]