Included with: πότε,
Ionic dialect κότε, Doric dialect πόκα [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 4.7, +others] Refs 3rd c.BC+]:—interrogative Particle used in direct and indirect questions, when? at what time? [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.227, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.642; πότ᾽ εἰ μὴ νῦν..; 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 101 (Lyric poetry), compare “Ch.” 394 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; πότ᾽ ἆρ; ={πότε} with ἆρα [[ 1.4 or 11, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 563; πότε δ; 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 720 (Lyric poetry); ἐς πότε λήξε; 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1185 (Lyric poetry); ἐκ πότε.. ἤρξασθε “SIG” 832.9 (Astypalaea, 2nd c.AD). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II indefinite ποτε (Attic dialect, also [[ 4th c.AD(?): Arcadius Grammaticus in οὔποτε “IG” 5(2).343.48,66 (Orchom., 4th c.BC), οὔτε ποτέ “Tab.Defix.” in “Philol.” 59.201, and 5th c.AD: Cypria in μήποτε “Inscription Cyprian dialect” 144H.)] Refs 4th c.BC+], Ionic dialect κοτε, Doric dialect ποκα, Aeolic dialect ποτα [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 1.5, _enclitic_ Particle: ] Refs 7th c.BC+]
__II.1 at some time or other, at some time, τάχ᾽ ἄν ποτε θυμὸν ὀλέσσῃ [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.205, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.76, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; π. καὶ ἄλλοτε at certain other times, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.4.12, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1451a9, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Herm.” 24. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 in hypothetical clauses, questions, etc., at any time, ever, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 755, 1133; εἴ κοτε Callias Epigrammaticus “Aet.Oxy.” 2080.69 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; compare εἴ ποτε: also with relatives (compare δήποτε), Ζεὺς ὅστις ποτ᾽ ἐστίν [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 160 (Lyric poetry), etc.] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ὅποι ποτέ, ὅπου π., etc., [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 780, “Aj.” 194 (Lyric poetry), etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; after πω, πη, see at {πώποτε, πήποκα}: very frequently with negatives, οὔτε ποτ᾽.. [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.226; οὐδέ ποτ᾽ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 759; οὐδέν ποτ᾽ ἄλλο 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 16; οὐδεὶς ἐρεῖ ποθ᾽ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 481; οὐκ ἂν δή ποτε 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.271, etc.; τοῦτο μὴ δόξῃς ποτέ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 762, compare 648, 750, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; compare οὔποτε, μήποτε, οὐδέποτε, μηδέποτε, οὐπώποτε, μηπώποτε.