ποῦ,
Ionic dialect κοῦ, interrogative adverb where? [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, etc.; frequently with _dative_ _person_, ποῦ δέ οἱ ἔντεα κεῖται..; 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.407; π. τοι τόξο; 5.171; π. τοι Δηΐφοβος.., π. δέ τοι Ὀθρυονεύ; 13.770, 772; ἀλλ᾽ ἡμὶν Αἴας ποὖστι; 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 733; π. μοί ποτε ναίε; [prev. author] “OC” 137 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; rarely with Verbs of motion in early authors, see που entry near the end:—with genitive loci, π. χθονό; where in the world? [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 231; π. γῆ; 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 984, “OT” 108, etc.; π. τῆς χώρα; 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitum magistro” 7.14 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὴν σοφίαν.. π. χοροῦ τάξομε; in what part of the chorus? [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 279c. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 so in a sense not strictly local, π. ποτ᾽ εἶ φρενῶ; [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 390; π. γνώμης ποτ᾽ ε; [prev. author] “Ant.” 42; π. ποτ᾽ εἰμὶ πράγματο; [prev. author] “Tr.” 375 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. σοι τύχης ἕστηκε; at what point of fortune stands he? [[ [prev. author] “Aj.” 102. ] Refs]
__II of manner, how? [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 406, “Or.” 802 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; to express an inference very strongly, κοῦ γε δὴ.. οὐκ ἂν χωσθείη κόλπος..; how then would it not.. ? i.e. it certainly would.., [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.11, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.27 codices ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; in Trag., in indignant questions, how? by what right? π. σὺ στρατηγεῖς τοῦδ; [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1100; ποῦ σὺ μάντις εἶ σαφή; [prev. author] “OT” 390, compare “Ph.” 451, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 369 (Lyric poetry), 510; π. γάρ ἐστι δίκαιο; 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 37.41, compare 23.58. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]