Strong G3745ὅσος
just as/how much
- Transliteration
- hosos
- Pronunciation
- hos'-os
- Morphology
- Greek Correlative
Definition
By reduplication from G3739; as (much great 6
long etc.) as: - all (that) as (long many much) (as) how great (many much) [in-] asmuch as so many as that (ever) the more those things what (great -soever) wheresoever wherewithsoever which X while who (-soever).
long etc.) as: - all (that) as (long many much) (as) how great (many much) [in-] asmuch as so many as that (ever) the more those things what (great -soever) wheresoever wherewithsoever which X while who (-soever).
Detailed definition
ὅσος, -η, -ον,
correlat. of τοσοῦτος,
how much, how many, how great, how far, how long, as much as, etc. (= Lat. quantus);
__(a) of number and quantity: m. pl., Mat.14:36, Mrk.3:10, Rom.2:12, al.; n. pl., Mat.17:12, Mrk.10:21, Luk.11:8, al.; πάτνες (πάντα) ὅ., Mat.13:46, Luk.4:40, al.; before οὗτοι (ταῦτα), Rom.8:14, Php.4:8; with indic., Mrk.6:56, Rev.3:19; with subjc. Mrk.3:28, al.; ὅ. ἄν, Mat.18:18, Jhn.11:22, al.;
__(b) of measure and degree: Mrk.3:8, Luk.8:39, Act.9:13; in compar. sent., ὅσον before μᾶλλον, Mrk.7:36; καθ᾽ ὅσον, with compar.. Heb.3:3; before τοσοῦτο, Heb.7:20; οὕτως, Heb.9:27; τοσαύτῳ, with compar. before ὅσῳ, with compar., Heb.1:4; ἐφ᾽ ὅσον, inasmuch as, Mat.25:40, 45 Rom.11:13;
__(with) of space and time: Rev.21:16; ἐφ᾽ ὅσον, as long as, Mat.9:15, 2Pe.1:13; ἐφ᾽ ὅ. χρόνον, Rom.7:1, 1Co.7:39, Gal.4:1; ἔτι μικρὸν ὅσον ὅσον, yet how very short a time, Heb.10:37 (LXX).
(AS)
correlat. of τοσοῦτος,
how much, how many, how great, how far, how long, as much as, etc. (= Lat. quantus);
__(a) of number and quantity: m. pl., Mat.14:36, Mrk.3:10, Rom.2:12, al.; n. pl., Mat.17:12, Mrk.10:21, Luk.11:8, al.; πάτνες (πάντα) ὅ., Mat.13:46, Luk.4:40, al.; before οὗτοι (ταῦτα), Rom.8:14, Php.4:8; with indic., Mrk.6:56, Rev.3:19; with subjc. Mrk.3:28, al.; ὅ. ἄν, Mat.18:18, Jhn.11:22, al.;
__(b) of measure and degree: Mrk.3:8, Luk.8:39, Act.9:13; in compar. sent., ὅσον before μᾶλλον, Mrk.7:36; καθ᾽ ὅσον, with compar.. Heb.3:3; before τοσοῦτο, Heb.7:20; οὕτως, Heb.9:27; τοσαύτῳ, with compar. before ὅσῳ, with compar., Heb.1:4; ἐφ᾽ ὅσον, inasmuch as, Mat.25:40, 45 Rom.11:13;
__(with) of space and time: Rev.21:16; ἐφ᾽ ὅσον, as long as, Mat.9:15, 2Pe.1:13; ἐφ᾽ ὅ. χρόνον, Rom.7:1, 1Co.7:39, Gal.4:1; ἔτι μικρὸν ὅσον ὅσον, yet how very short a time, Heb.10:37 (LXX).
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G3745 appears in 104 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- many29
- whatsoever18
- thing12
- that11
- as10
- long4
- much4
- ever3
- inasmuch3
- what3
- which2
- whosoever2
First verses
- Matthew 7:12Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
- Matthew 9:15And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.
- Matthew 13:44Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.
- Matthew 13:46Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
- Matthew 14:36And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.
- Matthew 17:12But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.
- Matthew 18:18Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
- Matthew 18:25But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
- Matthew 21:22And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
- Matthew 22:9Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.
- Matthew 22:10So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.
- Matthew 23:3All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
- Matthew 25:40And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
- Matthew 25:45Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
- Matthew 28:20Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
- Mark 2:19And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? as long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.
- Mark 3:8And from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and from beyond Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things he did, came unto him.
- Mark 3:10For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues.
- Mark 3:28Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme:
- Mark 5:19Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ὅσος,
Epic dialect ὅσσος, η, ον, both forms in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus and 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus)]; ὅσσος also in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 864 (Lyric poetry))]; and in many dialects, e. g. Lesb., [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Oxy.” 1788 “fragment” 15)] ii 18 (ὄσσος), argument, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“IG” 4.748.5 (Troezen, 4th c.BC), Thess., [prev. work] 9(2).517.19, +others)]; Central Cretan dialect ὄζος [Refs (“GDI” 5090 (from Lyttos), +others)], and ὄττος [Refs ([prev. work]5000 (from Gortyn): Relat. and indirect _interrogative_)] adjective:—of Size, as great as, how great; of Quantity, as much as, how much; of Space, as far as, how far; of Time, as long as, how long; of Number, as many as, how many; of Sound, as loud as, how loud: correlative with τόσος (τόσσος), τοσόσδε, τοσοῦτος, in sense as, τόσσον χρόνον ὅσσον ἄνωγας [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.670, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.169; τόσονδ᾽, ὅσον.. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 286)]; τοσοῦτον ὄχλον καὶ παρασκευήν, ὅσην.. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.35: sometimes with πᾶς or ἅπας)] as antecedent, χῶρον ἅπαντα ὅσσον.. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.190; ἐκ πασέων, ὅσσαι.. 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.723; πάντα μάλ᾽ ὅσσα.. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.115; τοὺς πάντας.., ὅσοι.. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 976, etc.; also ὅσων.. ψαύοιμι, πάντων τῶνδ᾽ ἀεὶ μετειχέτην 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1464: with ἴσος,)] just so much as, ἐμοὶ δ᾽ ἴσον τῇς χώρας μέτα, ὅσονπερ ὑμῖν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 174, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.44: frequently without antecedent, τῆς ἦ τοι φωνὴ μὲν ὅση σκύλακος νεογιλῆς 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.86, compare 10.113, etc.)]; ἀσπίδες ὅσσαι ἄρισται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.371, compare 75, 18.512)]; agreeing with an antecedent implied in an adjective, γυναικείας ἀρετῆς, ὅσαι.. the virtue of all the women, who.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.45, compare ὅς 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 1.1: the)] substantive frequently precedes, where we put it in the Relat. clause, οὐδέ τι οἶδε πένθεος[Refs 8th c.BC+ ((about the woe), ὅσσον ὄρωρε 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.658)]; ὁρᾷς.. τὴν θεῶν ἰσχύν, ὅση [ἐστί]; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 118)]; ὦ Ζεῦ.., τὸ χρῆμα τῶν κόπων ὅσον! [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1278)]; τὸ χρῆμα τῶν νυκτῶν ὅσον· ἀπέραντον! [Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Nu.” 2: and sometimes it is attracted to the case of the antecedent, εὐτραφέστατον πωμάτων ὅσων ἵησιν (for ὅσα) 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 309 (Lyric poetry); joined with οἷος, ὅσσος ἔην οἷός τε 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.630; so ὅσσοι τε καὶ οἵτινες 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.236: repeated in the same clause, τὸ δὲ ὅσον μέτρον ὅσοις [μειγνύμενον])] the quantities of the first ingredient and the others, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 68b; γαίης ὅσσης ὅσσον ἔχει μόριον “Anthologia Graeca” 7.740 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus): perhaps sometimes followed by a participle for a finite Verb, ὅσοι συμπαρεπόμενοι (assuming variant) 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 11.12, compare “HG” 6.1.10.)]
2 with a partitive genitive in the principal clause, Τρώων θάνον ὅσσοι ἄριστοι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.13; ἄριστοι ἵππων, ὅσσοι ἔασιν 5.267; Περσῶν ὅσοιπερ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 441)]; οὔ τις.. ὀνόσσεται, ὅσσοι Ἀχαιοί of all the Achaeans, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.55)]; [τῶν στρατειῶν] ὅσαι τε καὶ μὴ ἐπικίνδυνοι which are and which are not.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 467d)]; on τῶν ὅσοι, see ὁ, ἡ, τό [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 111.)]
3 of Time, ὅσαι ἡμέραι, ὅσα ἔτη, etc., see at {ὁσημέραι}.
4 with τις, in indirect questions, ἰδώμεθα.. ὅσσος τις χρυσὸς.. ἔνεστιν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.45; ὅσον τι δένδρον.. γίνεται 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.193)]; ὅσον τι ἐστί[Refs ([prev. work] 185; ὅσοι τινὲς ἐόντες.. [prev. author] 7.102, etc.)]
5 with accusative of extent, λίμνη.. μέγαθος, ὅσηπερ ἡ ἐν Δήλῳ in size as large as that in Delos, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 2.170, compare 175, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 423b.)]
6 with adjectives expressing Quantity, etc., both words being put in the same case, [πίθηκοι] ἄφθονοι ὅσοι.. γίνονται, i. e. in amazing numbers, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.194)]; ὄχλος ὑπερφυὴς ὅσος prodigiously large, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 750; χρήματα θαυμαστὰ ὅσα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hp.Ma.” 282c, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Halc.” 5, etc.)]; ἀπλάτων ὅσων, ἀμύθητα ὅσα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.3,91 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, compare 1st c.AD: Cornutus Philosophus “de Natura Deorum” 9; ὀλίγους ὅσους τῶν κοφίνων 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Alex.” 1; ἐτόλμησαν ἐπιφύεσθαι ἡμεῖν πλεῖστοι ὅσοι “SIG” 888.65 (Thrace, 3rd c.AD))]; μετὰ ἱδρῶτος θαυμαστοῦ ὅσου [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 350d; διὰ μυρίων ὅσων 3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor 1.1)]: frequently in adverbial construction, θαυμαστὸν ὅσον ἐπιδιδόντες [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 150d; θ. ὅσον διαφέρει [prev. author] “La.” 184c; ἀμηχάνῳ δὴ ὅσῳ πλείονι [prev. author] “R.” 588a; τυτθὸν ὅσσον ἄπωθεν 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 1.45; βαιὸν ὅσον παραβάς “Anthologia Graeca” 12.227 (2nd c.AD: Strato Epigrammaticus).)]
7 with superlative, ὅσας ἂν πλείστας δύνωνται καταστρέφεσθαι τῶν πολίων the most they possibly could.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.44, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.21)]; also ὅσον τάχος as quickly as possible, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 727 (more frequently ὅσον τάχιστα, see infr. IV. 4))]; ὅσον σθένος with all possible strength, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 1.42, 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.589.)]
8 with infinitive, so much as is enough for.., ὅσον ἀποζῆν enough to live off, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.2; ἐλείπετο τῆς νυκτὸς ὅσον.. διελθεῖν τὸ πεδίον 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.1.5)]; εὐδαιμονίας τοσοῦτον, ὅσον δοκεῖν so much as is enough for appearance, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1191 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.49, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 416e, etc.)]
II for ὅτι τοσοῦτος (see. οἷος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (11.2, 3, ὅς 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus IV. 3), 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.75, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 74, etc.)]
III followed by Particles:
III.1 ὅσος ἄν (κεν) how great (many) soever, with subjunctive, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.66, etc.)]
III.2 ὅσος δή of such and such a size or number (but in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus merely strengthened for ὅσος, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.487, +others), κήρυγμα ἐποιήσατο.., ζημίην τοῦτον ὀφείλειν, ὅσην δὴ εἴπας)] naming such and such an amount, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.52)]; ἐπέταξε τοῖσι.. ἔθνεσι γυναῖκας.. κατιστάναι, ὅσας δὴ ἐπιτάσσων ordering such and such a number, [Refs ([prev. work] 159)]; παρεσκευάζοντο ἐπὶ μισθῷ ὅσῳ δή for payment of a certain amount, [Refs ([prev. author] 1.160; σιτία παρακαταλιπόντες ὅσων δὴ μηνῶν [prev. author] 4.151; so ὅσος δή κοτε [prev. author] 1.157)]; ὁσοσδηποτοῦν, in plural, any number whatsoever, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra 9.9, +others, 2nd c.BC: Agatharchides Geographus 34; ὁσοσδηοῦν)]however large, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 3.119a; ὅσος δή τις 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 2.45, 4.60.)]
III.3 ὁσοσοῦν, Ionic dialect -ῶν, ever so small, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.199)]: in plural, however many, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1265a41; see infr. IV. 6.)]
III.4 ὅσοσπερ, precisely as great as, τοῦ μὲν χειμῶνός ἐστι [ὁ Ἴστρος] ὅσοσπέρ ἐστι of its normal size, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.50, compare 2.170)], etc.: in plural, as many as, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 475, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 423, 441; ἔθνεα πάντα ὅσαπερ ἦγε 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.87; ἅπαντα.., ὅσαπέρ γ᾽ ἔφασκον, κἄτι πολλῷ πλείονα 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 806: but ὅσοσπερ can frequently hardly be distinguished from ὅσος, see above 1.2, 5, infr. IV. 1, 3, and 7)]; and this is still more the case with Epic dialect ὅσος τε (compare ὅστε), [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.113, +others)]
IV Adverbial usages of ὅσον and ὅσα:
IV.1 so far as, so much as, οὐ μέντοι ἐγὼ τόσον αἴτιός εἰμι, ὅσσον οἱ ἄλλοι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.371: with)]infinitive, ὅσον αὔξειν ἢ καθαιρεῖν so far as to.., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1376a34: in parenthesis, with)]infinitive, ὅσον γέ μ᾽ εἰδέναι as far as I know, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1252, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 145a, compare 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 2.59)]; so μακραίων γ᾽, ὅσ᾽ ἀπεικάσαι conjecture in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 152 (Lyric poetry); ὅσον ἐς Ἑλλάδα γλῶσσαν ἀπὸ Λατίνης μεταβαλεῖν 2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Bella Civilia” 4.11)]: but more frequently with indicative, ὅσσον ἔγωγε γιγνώσκω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.222, compare 20.360; so ὅσονπερ ἂν σθένω 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 946; ὅσα γε.. ἦν εἰκάσαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.46; ὅσον δυνατόν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 196d, etc.)]; ὅσον καθ᾽ ἕν᾽ ἄνδρα so far as was in one man's power, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.153; ὅσον τὸ σὸν μέρος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1509: with _genitive_, ὅσον γε δυνάμεως παρ᾽ ἐμοί ἐστι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 422c, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1239; also ὅσα ἐγὼ μέμνημαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.1.21; οἱ πατέρες, ὅσα ἄνθρωποι, οὐκ ἀμαθεῖς ἔσονται 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 467c)]; ὅσα γε τἀνθρώπεια humanly speaking, [Refs ([prev. author] “Cri.” 47a.)]
IV.1.b how far, how much, ἴστε γὰρ ὅσσον ἐμοὶ ἀρετῇ περιβάλλετον ἵπποι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.276; μαθήσεται ὅσον τό τ᾽ ἄρχειν καὶ τὸ δουλεύειν δίχα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 927)]: with adjectives, how, ὅσον or ὅσσον.. μέγ᾽ ὄνειαρ, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 41, 346; ὅσ᾽ ἤπειρος πολλὰ τρέφει [prev. author] “Th.” 582.)]
IV.2 only so far as, only just, ὅσον ἐς Σκαιάς τε πύλας καὶ φηγὸν ἵκανεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.354; ὅσον ἐκ Φοινίκης ἐς Κρήτην 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.45; φιλοσοφίας, ὅσον παιδείας χάριν, μετέχειν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 485a, compare “R.” 403d; οὐδὲν ἡδέως ποιεῖ γὰρ οὗτος, ἀλλ᾽ ὅσον νόμου χάριν 4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus 43.14, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1076a27, +others)]; ὅσον καὶ ἀπὸ βοῆς ἕνεκα ὠργίζετο, opposed to τῷ ἀληθεῖ ἐχαλέπαινον, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.92: so, more fully, ὅσον μοῦνον 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.20, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.105, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 607a, etc.; or μόνον ὅσον [prev. author] “Lg.” 778c; ἐγὼ μέν μιν οὐκ εἶδον εἰ μὴ ὅσον γραφῇ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.73, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.3.20; σιτάρια μικρὰ προσφέρων οἴνου θ᾽ ὅσον ὀσμήν 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 98.3)]; τί οὐκ ἀπεκοιμήθημεν ὅ. ὅ. στίλη; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 213; ἢ ὅσον ὅσσον στιγμή “Anthologia Graeca” 7.472 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus), compare 5.254 (Paul. Sil.))]; ἐπαναγαγεῖν ὅ. ὅ. [NT (NT.Luke.5.3 (codex D, variant{ὀλίγον}))]; ὅσον· ὀλίγον, ὅσον ὅσον δέ, ὀλίγον ὀλίγον, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]; παρ᾽ ὅσον ἧττον a little less, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus 631.17 (= παρ᾽ ὀλίγον ἧττον, Scholia))]; οὐδ᾽ ὅσον not even, οὐδ᾽ ὅ. ἀττάραγόν τυ δεδοίκαμες [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Epigrammata” 47.9)]: absolutely, not the least mite, [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ap.” 37, 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.181, 190; οὐδέ περ ὅσσον [prev. author] 3.519; οὐδ᾽ ὅσον ὅσσον 4th-3rd c.BC: Philetas 7)]; cf. IV. 5.
IV.3 of size or distance, ὅσον τε about, nearly, ὅσον τ᾽ ὄργυιαν, ὅσον τε πυγούσιον, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.325, 10.517; ὅσον τ᾽ ἐπὶ ἥμισυ 13.114, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.351; ὅσον τε δέκα στάδια 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.57; ξύλα ὅσον τε διπήχεα [prev. author] 2.96, compare 78; so ὅσονπερ τρία στάδια [prev. author] 9.51)]; in Attic dialect ὅσον alone, ὅσον δύο πλέθρα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.38; ὅσον δύ᾽ ἢ τρία στάδια 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 229c; ὅσον παρασάγγην 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.28)]; so of other measurements, ὅσον τριχοίνικον ἄρτον [Refs ([prev. author] “An.” 7.3.23.)]
IV.4 with adjectives of Quality or Degree, mostly with comparative, αἴθ᾽, ὅσον ἥσσων εἰμί, τόσον σέο φέρτερος εἴην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.722, compare 1.186)]; ὅσσον βασιλεύτερός εἰμι so far as, inasmuch as I am a greater king, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (9.160: and with _superlative_, γνώσετ᾽.., ὅσον εἰμὶ θεῶν κάρτιστος 8.17, compare 1.516, etc.: with Advs., ὅσον τάχιστα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 772, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1103, “El.” 1433; ὅσον μάλιστα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 524; ὅσα ἐδύνατο μ. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.185.)]
IV.5 with negatives, ὅσον οὐ or ὁσονού just not, all but[Refs 5th c.BC+ ((cf. IV. 2), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.36, 5.59, etc.)]; ὅσον οὐκ ἤδη almost immediately, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 141 (_anapaest meter_), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.96; later ὅσον ἤδη 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.4.4, 8.34.8; ὅσον οὔπω 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 1076, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.125, 6.34: ὅσον οὐδέπω)] with future, presently, in a minute, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Nicomachus Gerasenus Mathematicus “Arithmetica Introductio” 1.8, 3rd c.AD: Heliodorus Scriptor Eroticus 2.31, +others)]
IV.5.b οὐχ ὅσον οὐκ ἠμύναντο, ἀλλ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ἐσώθησαν not only not.., but not even, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.62.)]
IV.5.c ὅσον μή so far as not, save or except so far as, καλός τε κἀγαθὸς τὴν φύσιν, ὅσον μὴ ὑβριστής (sic to be read) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 273a)]; ὅσον γ᾽ ἂν αὐτὸς μὴ ποτιψαύων so far as I can without touching.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1214; ὅσον μὴ χερσὶ καίνων [prev. author] “OT” 347; ὅσα μή 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.111, 4.16)]: sometimes with a finite Verb, πείθεσθαι.., ὅσον ἂν μὴ ἀνάγκη ᾖ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 21.4, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 83a; compare ὅ τι 11.)]
IV.6 ὁσονοῦν, Ionic dialect ὁσονῶν, ever so little, εἰ τοίνυν ἐχιόνιζε καὶ ὁσονῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.22; so ἐφ᾽ ὁσονοῦν 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 6.7.5, 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “in Nicomachi arithmeticam introductionem” p.14 P.)]
IV.7 ὅσα and ὅσαπερ, just like{ὡς, ὥσπερ}, as, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.5.12, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “VH” 1.24, etc.)]
V ὅσῳ, ὅσῳπερ, by how much, frequently with comparative, ὅσῳ πλέον ἥμισυ παντός [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 40; ὅσῳ κρείττω 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 488.3; ὅσῳ ἂν πλεονάκις εἰσίῃς 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.3.14)]: with superlative, διέδεξε, ὅσῳ ἐστὶ τοῦτο ἄριστον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.82, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 59, 1050.)]
V.2 ὅσῳ with comparative when followed by another comparative with τοσούτῳ, the more.., so much the more.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.5.80; ὅ. μᾶλλον πιστεύω, τοσούτῳ μᾶλλον ἀπορῶ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 368b: with τοσούτῳ omitted, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1419, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 792)]: sometimes a superlative replaces the comparative, ὅσῳ μάλιστα ἐλεύθεροι.., τοσούτῳ καὶ θρασύτατα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.84, compare 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 7.39)]; ὅσῳ alone, ἑωυτοὺς δὲ γενέσθαι τοσούτῳ.., ἀμείνονας, ὅσῳ.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.137, compare 5.49, 8.13; νιν τῶνδε πλεῖστον ᾤκτισα.., ὅσῳπερ καὶ φρονεῖν οἶδεν μόνη 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 313, compare “OC” 743.)]
VI ἐς ὅσον, ἐφ᾽ ὅσον, καθ᾽ ὅσον are frequently used much like{ὅσον, εἰς ὅσον σθένω} [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ph.” 1403 (troch.); ἐφ᾽ ὅσον ἐδύνατο 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.4; εἰς ὅσον δύνανται 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 607a; καθ᾽ ὅσον δυνατόν [prev. author] “Ti.” 51b)]; ἐφ᾽ ὅσον ἐστὶν δυνατός as far as he can, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“IG” 22.903.11 (2nd c.BC))]; later of Time, ἐς ὅσον δύναμίς μοι ὑπῆρχεν as long as.. [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (POxy. 899.8 (2nd-3rd c.AD))]; ἐφ᾽ ὅσον περιῆσαν as long as they lived, Mitteis [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“Chr.” 31i23 (2nd c.BC).)]
VI.2 ἐν ὅσῳ while, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 943 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.87.)]
VII no adverb ὅσως occurs.
Epic dialect ὅσσος, η, ον, both forms in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus and 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus)]; ὅσσος also in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 864 (Lyric poetry))]; and in many dialects, e. g. Lesb., [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Oxy.” 1788 “fragment” 15)] ii 18 (ὄσσος), argument, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“IG” 4.748.5 (Troezen, 4th c.BC), Thess., [prev. work] 9(2).517.19, +others)]; Central Cretan dialect ὄζος [Refs (“GDI” 5090 (from Lyttos), +others)], and ὄττος [Refs ([prev. work]5000 (from Gortyn): Relat. and indirect _interrogative_)] adjective:—of Size, as great as, how great; of Quantity, as much as, how much; of Space, as far as, how far; of Time, as long as, how long; of Number, as many as, how many; of Sound, as loud as, how loud: correlative with τόσος (τόσσος), τοσόσδε, τοσοῦτος, in sense as, τόσσον χρόνον ὅσσον ἄνωγας [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.670, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.169; τόσονδ᾽, ὅσον.. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 286)]; τοσοῦτον ὄχλον καὶ παρασκευήν, ὅσην.. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.35: sometimes with πᾶς or ἅπας)] as antecedent, χῶρον ἅπαντα ὅσσον.. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.190; ἐκ πασέων, ὅσσαι.. 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.723; πάντα μάλ᾽ ὅσσα.. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.115; τοὺς πάντας.., ὅσοι.. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 976, etc.; also ὅσων.. ψαύοιμι, πάντων τῶνδ᾽ ἀεὶ μετειχέτην 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1464: with ἴσος,)] just so much as, ἐμοὶ δ᾽ ἴσον τῇς χώρας μέτα, ὅσονπερ ὑμῖν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 174, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.44: frequently without antecedent, τῆς ἦ τοι φωνὴ μὲν ὅση σκύλακος νεογιλῆς 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.86, compare 10.113, etc.)]; ἀσπίδες ὅσσαι ἄρισται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.371, compare 75, 18.512)]; agreeing with an antecedent implied in an adjective, γυναικείας ἀρετῆς, ὅσαι.. the virtue of all the women, who.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.45, compare ὅς 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 1.1: the)] substantive frequently precedes, where we put it in the Relat. clause, οὐδέ τι οἶδε πένθεος[Refs 8th c.BC+ ((about the woe), ὅσσον ὄρωρε 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.658)]; ὁρᾷς.. τὴν θεῶν ἰσχύν, ὅση [ἐστί]; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 118)]; ὦ Ζεῦ.., τὸ χρῆμα τῶν κόπων ὅσον! [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1278)]; τὸ χρῆμα τῶν νυκτῶν ὅσον· ἀπέραντον! [Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Nu.” 2: and sometimes it is attracted to the case of the antecedent, εὐτραφέστατον πωμάτων ὅσων ἵησιν (for ὅσα) 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 309 (Lyric poetry); joined with οἷος, ὅσσος ἔην οἷός τε 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.630; so ὅσσοι τε καὶ οἵτινες 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.236: repeated in the same clause, τὸ δὲ ὅσον μέτρον ὅσοις [μειγνύμενον])] the quantities of the first ingredient and the others, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 68b; γαίης ὅσσης ὅσσον ἔχει μόριον “Anthologia Graeca” 7.740 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus): perhaps sometimes followed by a participle for a finite Verb, ὅσοι συμπαρεπόμενοι (assuming variant) 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 11.12, compare “HG” 6.1.10.)]
2 with a partitive genitive in the principal clause, Τρώων θάνον ὅσσοι ἄριστοι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.13; ἄριστοι ἵππων, ὅσσοι ἔασιν 5.267; Περσῶν ὅσοιπερ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 441)]; οὔ τις.. ὀνόσσεται, ὅσσοι Ἀχαιοί of all the Achaeans, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.55)]; [τῶν στρατειῶν] ὅσαι τε καὶ μὴ ἐπικίνδυνοι which are and which are not.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 467d)]; on τῶν ὅσοι, see ὁ, ἡ, τό [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 111.)]
3 of Time, ὅσαι ἡμέραι, ὅσα ἔτη, etc., see at {ὁσημέραι}.
4 with τις, in indirect questions, ἰδώμεθα.. ὅσσος τις χρυσὸς.. ἔνεστιν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.45; ὅσον τι δένδρον.. γίνεται 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.193)]; ὅσον τι ἐστί[Refs ([prev. work] 185; ὅσοι τινὲς ἐόντες.. [prev. author] 7.102, etc.)]
5 with accusative of extent, λίμνη.. μέγαθος, ὅσηπερ ἡ ἐν Δήλῳ in size as large as that in Delos, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 2.170, compare 175, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 423b.)]
6 with adjectives expressing Quantity, etc., both words being put in the same case, [πίθηκοι] ἄφθονοι ὅσοι.. γίνονται, i. e. in amazing numbers, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.194)]; ὄχλος ὑπερφυὴς ὅσος prodigiously large, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 750; χρήματα θαυμαστὰ ὅσα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hp.Ma.” 282c, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Halc.” 5, etc.)]; ἀπλάτων ὅσων, ἀμύθητα ὅσα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.3,91 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, compare 1st c.AD: Cornutus Philosophus “de Natura Deorum” 9; ὀλίγους ὅσους τῶν κοφίνων 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Alex.” 1; ἐτόλμησαν ἐπιφύεσθαι ἡμεῖν πλεῖστοι ὅσοι “SIG” 888.65 (Thrace, 3rd c.AD))]; μετὰ ἱδρῶτος θαυμαστοῦ ὅσου [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 350d; διὰ μυρίων ὅσων 3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor 1.1)]: frequently in adverbial construction, θαυμαστὸν ὅσον ἐπιδιδόντες [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 150d; θ. ὅσον διαφέρει [prev. author] “La.” 184c; ἀμηχάνῳ δὴ ὅσῳ πλείονι [prev. author] “R.” 588a; τυτθὸν ὅσσον ἄπωθεν 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 1.45; βαιὸν ὅσον παραβάς “Anthologia Graeca” 12.227 (2nd c.AD: Strato Epigrammaticus).)]
7 with superlative, ὅσας ἂν πλείστας δύνωνται καταστρέφεσθαι τῶν πολίων the most they possibly could.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.44, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.21)]; also ὅσον τάχος as quickly as possible, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 727 (more frequently ὅσον τάχιστα, see infr. IV. 4))]; ὅσον σθένος with all possible strength, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 1.42, 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.589.)]
8 with infinitive, so much as is enough for.., ὅσον ἀποζῆν enough to live off, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.2; ἐλείπετο τῆς νυκτὸς ὅσον.. διελθεῖν τὸ πεδίον 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.1.5)]; εὐδαιμονίας τοσοῦτον, ὅσον δοκεῖν so much as is enough for appearance, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1191 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.49, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 416e, etc.)]
II for ὅτι τοσοῦτος (see. οἷος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (11.2, 3, ὅς 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus IV. 3), 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.75, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 74, etc.)]
III followed by Particles:
III.1 ὅσος ἄν (κεν) how great (many) soever, with subjunctive, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.66, etc.)]
III.2 ὅσος δή of such and such a size or number (but in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus merely strengthened for ὅσος, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.487, +others), κήρυγμα ἐποιήσατο.., ζημίην τοῦτον ὀφείλειν, ὅσην δὴ εἴπας)] naming such and such an amount, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.52)]; ἐπέταξε τοῖσι.. ἔθνεσι γυναῖκας.. κατιστάναι, ὅσας δὴ ἐπιτάσσων ordering such and such a number, [Refs ([prev. work] 159)]; παρεσκευάζοντο ἐπὶ μισθῷ ὅσῳ δή for payment of a certain amount, [Refs ([prev. author] 1.160; σιτία παρακαταλιπόντες ὅσων δὴ μηνῶν [prev. author] 4.151; so ὅσος δή κοτε [prev. author] 1.157)]; ὁσοσδηποτοῦν, in plural, any number whatsoever, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra 9.9, +others, 2nd c.BC: Agatharchides Geographus 34; ὁσοσδηοῦν)]however large, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 3.119a; ὅσος δή τις 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 2.45, 4.60.)]
III.3 ὁσοσοῦν, Ionic dialect -ῶν, ever so small, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.199)]: in plural, however many, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1265a41; see infr. IV. 6.)]
III.4 ὅσοσπερ, precisely as great as, τοῦ μὲν χειμῶνός ἐστι [ὁ Ἴστρος] ὅσοσπέρ ἐστι of its normal size, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.50, compare 2.170)], etc.: in plural, as many as, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 475, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 423, 441; ἔθνεα πάντα ὅσαπερ ἦγε 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.87; ἅπαντα.., ὅσαπέρ γ᾽ ἔφασκον, κἄτι πολλῷ πλείονα 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 806: but ὅσοσπερ can frequently hardly be distinguished from ὅσος, see above 1.2, 5, infr. IV. 1, 3, and 7)]; and this is still more the case with Epic dialect ὅσος τε (compare ὅστε), [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.113, +others)]
IV Adverbial usages of ὅσον and ὅσα:
IV.1 so far as, so much as, οὐ μέντοι ἐγὼ τόσον αἴτιός εἰμι, ὅσσον οἱ ἄλλοι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.371: with)]infinitive, ὅσον αὔξειν ἢ καθαιρεῖν so far as to.., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1376a34: in parenthesis, with)]infinitive, ὅσον γέ μ᾽ εἰδέναι as far as I know, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1252, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 145a, compare 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 2.59)]; so μακραίων γ᾽, ὅσ᾽ ἀπεικάσαι conjecture in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 152 (Lyric poetry); ὅσον ἐς Ἑλλάδα γλῶσσαν ἀπὸ Λατίνης μεταβαλεῖν 2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Bella Civilia” 4.11)]: but more frequently with indicative, ὅσσον ἔγωγε γιγνώσκω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.222, compare 20.360; so ὅσονπερ ἂν σθένω 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 946; ὅσα γε.. ἦν εἰκάσαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.46; ὅσον δυνατόν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 196d, etc.)]; ὅσον καθ᾽ ἕν᾽ ἄνδρα so far as was in one man's power, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.153; ὅσον τὸ σὸν μέρος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1509: with _genitive_, ὅσον γε δυνάμεως παρ᾽ ἐμοί ἐστι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 422c, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1239; also ὅσα ἐγὼ μέμνημαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.1.21; οἱ πατέρες, ὅσα ἄνθρωποι, οὐκ ἀμαθεῖς ἔσονται 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 467c)]; ὅσα γε τἀνθρώπεια humanly speaking, [Refs ([prev. author] “Cri.” 47a.)]
IV.1.b how far, how much, ἴστε γὰρ ὅσσον ἐμοὶ ἀρετῇ περιβάλλετον ἵπποι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.276; μαθήσεται ὅσον τό τ᾽ ἄρχειν καὶ τὸ δουλεύειν δίχα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 927)]: with adjectives, how, ὅσον or ὅσσον.. μέγ᾽ ὄνειαρ, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 41, 346; ὅσ᾽ ἤπειρος πολλὰ τρέφει [prev. author] “Th.” 582.)]
IV.2 only so far as, only just, ὅσον ἐς Σκαιάς τε πύλας καὶ φηγὸν ἵκανεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.354; ὅσον ἐκ Φοινίκης ἐς Κρήτην 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.45; φιλοσοφίας, ὅσον παιδείας χάριν, μετέχειν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 485a, compare “R.” 403d; οὐδὲν ἡδέως ποιεῖ γὰρ οὗτος, ἀλλ᾽ ὅσον νόμου χάριν 4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus 43.14, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1076a27, +others)]; ὅσον καὶ ἀπὸ βοῆς ἕνεκα ὠργίζετο, opposed to τῷ ἀληθεῖ ἐχαλέπαινον, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.92: so, more fully, ὅσον μοῦνον 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.20, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.105, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 607a, etc.; or μόνον ὅσον [prev. author] “Lg.” 778c; ἐγὼ μέν μιν οὐκ εἶδον εἰ μὴ ὅσον γραφῇ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.73, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.3.20; σιτάρια μικρὰ προσφέρων οἴνου θ᾽ ὅσον ὀσμήν 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 98.3)]; τί οὐκ ἀπεκοιμήθημεν ὅ. ὅ. στίλη; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 213; ἢ ὅσον ὅσσον στιγμή “Anthologia Graeca” 7.472 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus), compare 5.254 (Paul. Sil.))]; ἐπαναγαγεῖν ὅ. ὅ. [NT (NT.Luke.5.3 (codex D, variant{ὀλίγον}))]; ὅσον· ὀλίγον, ὅσον ὅσον δέ, ὀλίγον ὀλίγον, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]; παρ᾽ ὅσον ἧττον a little less, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus 631.17 (= παρ᾽ ὀλίγον ἧττον, Scholia))]; οὐδ᾽ ὅσον not even, οὐδ᾽ ὅ. ἀττάραγόν τυ δεδοίκαμες [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Epigrammata” 47.9)]: absolutely, not the least mite, [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ap.” 37, 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.181, 190; οὐδέ περ ὅσσον [prev. author] 3.519; οὐδ᾽ ὅσον ὅσσον 4th-3rd c.BC: Philetas 7)]; cf. IV. 5.
IV.3 of size or distance, ὅσον τε about, nearly, ὅσον τ᾽ ὄργυιαν, ὅσον τε πυγούσιον, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.325, 10.517; ὅσον τ᾽ ἐπὶ ἥμισυ 13.114, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.351; ὅσον τε δέκα στάδια 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.57; ξύλα ὅσον τε διπήχεα [prev. author] 2.96, compare 78; so ὅσονπερ τρία στάδια [prev. author] 9.51)]; in Attic dialect ὅσον alone, ὅσον δύο πλέθρα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.38; ὅσον δύ᾽ ἢ τρία στάδια 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 229c; ὅσον παρασάγγην 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.28)]; so of other measurements, ὅσον τριχοίνικον ἄρτον [Refs ([prev. author] “An.” 7.3.23.)]
IV.4 with adjectives of Quality or Degree, mostly with comparative, αἴθ᾽, ὅσον ἥσσων εἰμί, τόσον σέο φέρτερος εἴην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.722, compare 1.186)]; ὅσσον βασιλεύτερός εἰμι so far as, inasmuch as I am a greater king, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (9.160: and with _superlative_, γνώσετ᾽.., ὅσον εἰμὶ θεῶν κάρτιστος 8.17, compare 1.516, etc.: with Advs., ὅσον τάχιστα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 772, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1103, “El.” 1433; ὅσον μάλιστα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 524; ὅσα ἐδύνατο μ. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.185.)]
IV.5 with negatives, ὅσον οὐ or ὁσονού just not, all but[Refs 5th c.BC+ ((cf. IV. 2), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.36, 5.59, etc.)]; ὅσον οὐκ ἤδη almost immediately, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 141 (_anapaest meter_), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.96; later ὅσον ἤδη 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.4.4, 8.34.8; ὅσον οὔπω 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 1076, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.125, 6.34: ὅσον οὐδέπω)] with future, presently, in a minute, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Nicomachus Gerasenus Mathematicus “Arithmetica Introductio” 1.8, 3rd c.AD: Heliodorus Scriptor Eroticus 2.31, +others)]
IV.5.b οὐχ ὅσον οὐκ ἠμύναντο, ἀλλ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ἐσώθησαν not only not.., but not even, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.62.)]
IV.5.c ὅσον μή so far as not, save or except so far as, καλός τε κἀγαθὸς τὴν φύσιν, ὅσον μὴ ὑβριστής (sic to be read) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 273a)]; ὅσον γ᾽ ἂν αὐτὸς μὴ ποτιψαύων so far as I can without touching.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1214; ὅσον μὴ χερσὶ καίνων [prev. author] “OT” 347; ὅσα μή 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.111, 4.16)]: sometimes with a finite Verb, πείθεσθαι.., ὅσον ἂν μὴ ἀνάγκη ᾖ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 21.4, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 83a; compare ὅ τι 11.)]
IV.6 ὁσονοῦν, Ionic dialect ὁσονῶν, ever so little, εἰ τοίνυν ἐχιόνιζε καὶ ὁσονῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.22; so ἐφ᾽ ὁσονοῦν 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 6.7.5, 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “in Nicomachi arithmeticam introductionem” p.14 P.)]
IV.7 ὅσα and ὅσαπερ, just like{ὡς, ὥσπερ}, as, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.5.12, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “VH” 1.24, etc.)]
V ὅσῳ, ὅσῳπερ, by how much, frequently with comparative, ὅσῳ πλέον ἥμισυ παντός [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 40; ὅσῳ κρείττω 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 488.3; ὅσῳ ἂν πλεονάκις εἰσίῃς 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.3.14)]: with superlative, διέδεξε, ὅσῳ ἐστὶ τοῦτο ἄριστον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.82, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 59, 1050.)]
V.2 ὅσῳ with comparative when followed by another comparative with τοσούτῳ, the more.., so much the more.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.5.80; ὅ. μᾶλλον πιστεύω, τοσούτῳ μᾶλλον ἀπορῶ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 368b: with τοσούτῳ omitted, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1419, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 792)]: sometimes a superlative replaces the comparative, ὅσῳ μάλιστα ἐλεύθεροι.., τοσούτῳ καὶ θρασύτατα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.84, compare 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 7.39)]; ὅσῳ alone, ἑωυτοὺς δὲ γενέσθαι τοσούτῳ.., ἀμείνονας, ὅσῳ.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.137, compare 5.49, 8.13; νιν τῶνδε πλεῖστον ᾤκτισα.., ὅσῳπερ καὶ φρονεῖν οἶδεν μόνη 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 313, compare “OC” 743.)]
VI ἐς ὅσον, ἐφ᾽ ὅσον, καθ᾽ ὅσον are frequently used much like{ὅσον, εἰς ὅσον σθένω} [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ph.” 1403 (troch.); ἐφ᾽ ὅσον ἐδύνατο 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.4; εἰς ὅσον δύνανται 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 607a; καθ᾽ ὅσον δυνατόν [prev. author] “Ti.” 51b)]; ἐφ᾽ ὅσον ἐστὶν δυνατός as far as he can, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“IG” 22.903.11 (2nd c.BC))]; later of Time, ἐς ὅσον δύναμίς μοι ὑπῆρχεν as long as.. [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (POxy. 899.8 (2nd-3rd c.AD))]; ἐφ᾽ ὅσον περιῆσαν as long as they lived, Mitteis [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“Chr.” 31i23 (2nd c.BC).)]
VI.2 ἐν ὅσῳ while, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 943 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.87.)]
VII no adverb ὅσως occurs.