ὁπόταν
hopotan
whensoever
Appears 67 times across Plato's dialogues.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
ὁπόταν, i. e. ὁπότʼ ἄν, as it is freq. written in codd. (the distn. did not exist for the Greeks) : Adv., related to ὅταν as ὁπότε to ὅτε (v. ὁπότε), A. whensoever, used only with subj., Il. 15.209, etc. ( uses ὁππότε κεν in the same way, Il. 4.40, 229, al.): rarely after past tenses, πολλὰς . . ᾔσθου πλαγάς, ὁπόταν . . νὺξ ὑπολείφθῃ (for ὁπότε νὺξ ὑπολειφθείη) El. 91 (anap.): never with ind. in early writers, for φθέγξομαι (Il. 21.340), ἱμείρεται (Od. 1.41) are Ep. aor. subj. forms, and in Od. 16.282 θῇσιν is the right reading : never with opt. save in late writers (unless the Mss. can be trusted in Alc. 2.146a), for in Il. 7.415 ὁππότʼ ἄρʼ is the reading of the best codd. ; in Cyr. 1.3.11 ὁπότε ἥκοι is the right reading. II. as soon as, ὁπότʼ ἂν τὸ πρῶτον ἴδῃ φάος h.Ap. 71.
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