τοσοῦτος

tosoutos

so large, so tall

Appears 8 times across Homer's epics.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

τοσοῦτος, αύτη, οῦτο (or τοσοῦτον, v. sub fin.); Ep. τοσσοῦτος; Aeol. τεσσοῦτος (q. v.); A. = τόσος in all senses, but like τοσόσδε with stronger demonstr. sense: Hom. has both common and Ep. forms, but not so freq. as τόσος or τόσσος, while in Trag. (not in E.) it is common, and in Prose the prevailing form, cf. τοσόσδε:—freq. answered by the Relat. ὅσος, S. Ph. 1076, Pl. R. 330b, etc.; by ὁπόσος, Id. Smp. 214a, etc.; by ὅστις, Hdt. 7.49; also by Adv. ὡς, Od. 21.402; τ. ἐγένετο ὥστε . . X. Cyn. 1.9: freq. also, like τοσόσδε, abs., ἄφενος τ. Od. 14.99; of persons, so large, so tall, etc., καί σε τ. ἔθηκα Il. 9.485; also, so great (in rank, skill, or character), S. Tr. 1140, Pl. Smp. 177c, etc.; τ. καὶ τοιοῦτον τὸ θεῖον ὥσθʼ ἅμα πάνθʼ ὁρᾶν X. Mem. 1.4.18; τηλικοῦτος καὶ τ. Pl. Smp. 177a: pl., so many, τ. ἔτεα Il. 2.328; [χρήματα] Od. 13.258: with a qualifying word, mostly in acc., μεγάθεα τοσοῦτοι so big, Hdt. 7.103; τοσοῦτος τὸ βάθος so deep, X. An. 3.5.7; τοσοῦτοι τὸ πλῆθος Arist. Pol. 1283b12; τὴν ἡλικίαν Plu. Arat. 50; also τοσοῦτος ἐν κακίᾳ (v.l. εἰς κακίαν) Luc. Alex. 1; τοσοῦτος ἡλικίας Plu. Cat.Mi. 69 (s. v. l.): with numeral Advbs., δὶς τ., πολλάκις τ., etc., Th. 6.37, Pl. R. 330b, etc.; also ἕτερον τοσοῦτο of the same height, Hdt. 2.149; ἕτεροι or ἄλλοι τοσοῦτοι to the same number, And. 3.7, X. HG 4.1.21: εἰς τοσούτους τεταγμένοι drawn up only so few in file (opp. οὕτω βαθεῖα φάλαγξ), Id. Cyr. 6.3.22, cf. Isoc. 9.29. II. neut. as Subst., so much, thus much, τοσσοῦτον ὀνήσιος Od. 21.402, cf. S. OT 836, OC 790; τ. οἶδα Id. Aj. 748, cf. 441, etc.; referring to what precedes, τοσαῦτα . . εἰρήσθω Hdt. 3.113; τοσαῦτʼ ἔλεξε A. Pers. 372, cf. Pr. 621, Ag. 680, etc.: freq. with Preps., διὰ τοσούτου at so small a distance, so near at hand, Th. 2.29; ἐς τοσοῦτο (ν) so far, Hdt. 3.113, 6.134; ἐς τ. ἥκομεν, ὥστε . . Lys. 27.10; ἐς τ. ἐλπίδων βεβώς S. OT 771, cf. OC 748, Ar. Nu. 832, Pl. Ap. 25e, etc.; ἐκ τ. from so far, so far off, X. HG 4.4.16; ἐν τοσούτῳ in the meantime, Ar. Eq. 420, Th. 6.64; ἐπὶ τοσοῦτο so far, Hdt. 6.97, Arist. Pol. 1300a9; κατὰ τοσοῦτον so far, Lys. 31.8, Pl. Prm. 129a, etc.; μέχρι τοσούτου ἕως ἂν . . so far, so long, Th. 1.90, cf. X. Cyr. 1.4.23; παρὰ τοσοῦτον ἐλθεῖν κινδύνου Th. 3.49, 7.2, cf. 6.37: τοσούτου δέω, v. δέω (B) 1.2. III. neut. also as Adv., so much, so far, ἢ τοσσοῦτον . . ἢ ἔτι μᾶσσον Od. 8.203; τ. ὀδύρομαι 21.250; σθένειν τ. ὥστε . . S. Ant. 453, etc.; τοσοῦτον, ὅσον . . Th. 3.49, cf. 1.11,88, X. An. 3.1.45, etc.: pl., τοσαῦτα μάχεσθαι ὅσα ἀναγκάζονται Th. 7.81, cf. Pl. Alc. 1.108a: with Adjs., τοσοῦτον φιλέλλην Sor. Vit.Hippocr. 8; νεώτατος τ. Il. 23.476; τ. εὐτυχέστεροι Lys. 2.16:—but τοσούτῳ is more freq. with Comparatives, Hdt. 7.49, Pl. R. 576b, X. HG 4.8.4, etc.; or with words implying comparison, τοσούτῳ διέφερεν ὥστε . . ib.3.1.10, cf. An. 1.5.9. (The neut. is τοσοῦτον (Ep. also τοσσοῦτον) in Il. 23.476, Od. 14.99, A. Pr. 621, S. OT 771, al., and Att. generally (very freq. in Pl., Prt. 314b, al., but τοσοῦτο is found in Tht. 153a as cited by Anon. in Tht.): τοσοῦτο is found in Pi. I. 2.35 (τοσοῦθʼ ὅσον) and in A. Eu. 201,427, Ar. Nu. 832, where τοσοῦτον (which is v.l. in Ar. l. c.) is metrically possible; also in Hdt. (passim) and as v. l. in cod. B of Th. 7.59 and codd. CG of Id. 8.76, in all codd. of Lys. 3.34, 6.17 and in the first hand of cod. X in 14.2, also in D. 28.12; so later, PCair.Zen. 367.38, PMich.Zen. 28.17 (both iii B. C.), Phld. Ir. p.47 W.,Rh. 1.206S.; τοσοῦτʼ ἐπʼ αὐτούς D.S. 14.23; τοσοῦτʼ ἀπέχειν Aristid. Or. 36(48).100.)
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