Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὅτ’ ‎(hót’) apocopic
• ὅθ’ ‎(hóth’) apocopic, before a vowel with rough breathing

Adverb

ὅτε • ‎(hóte) (relative adverb)

1. (of time) when
   1. (with indicative, to denote single events) when
      • Homer, Iliad 1.397
      • Homer, Iliad 5.392
      • Xenophon, Hellenica 1.7.35
      • Homer, Odyssey 24.115
      • Aristophanes, The Wasps 354
      • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.21
      • Homer, Iliad 1.397
      • Homer, Iliad 17.627
      1. (with present, of a thing now happening)
         • Homer, Iliad 2.471
         • Homer, Iliad 4.259
         • Xenophon, Cyropaedia 2.4.6
      2. (rarely with future)
         • Homer, Odyssey 18.272
   2. (with optative, to denote repeated events or actions in past time)
      • Homer, Iliad 1.610
      • Homer, Iliad 3.216
      1. (of future events which are represented as uncertain, in clauses dependent on a verb in optative or subjunctive)
         • Homer, Iliad 3.55
         • Homer, Iliad 21.429
         • Aeschylus, The Eumenides 726
      2. (only in Epic and Lyric poets, with subjunctive)
         • Homer, Iliad 19.337
         • Homer, Iliad 21.323
   3. (in Homer, to introduce a simile)
      • Homer, Iliad 2.147
      • Homer, Iliad 4.130
      • 6, 506
      • Homer, Iliad 16.364
      • Homer, Iliad 21.12
      • Homer, Odyssey 10.462
      • Homer, Iliad 2.394
      • Homer, Iliad 4.462
   4. (with other particles)
2. (causal sense) whereas
   • Homer, Iliad 16.433
   • Homer, Iliad 20.29
   • Sophocles, Ajax 1095
   • Sophocles, Oedipus the King 918
   • Plato, Symposium 206.A
   • Plato, Protagoras 354.C
   • Herodotus, Histories 5.92
   • Sophocles, Philoctetes 428
   • Aristophanes, The Clouds 34
3. (absolute) sometimes, now and then
   • Aristotle, Politics 2.2.16
   • Homer, Iliad 20.49
   • Homer, Iliad 18.599
   • Homer, Iliad 11.64
   • Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.1270
   • Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 2.106
   • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1.10.5
   • Aristotle, Politics 7.13.2
   • Aristotle, Poetics 3.2
   • Homer, Iliad 11.566
   • Sophocles, Ajax 56
   • Xenophon, Cynegeticus 5.8

References

• ὅτε in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὅτε in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὅτε in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ὅτε» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ὅτε» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ὅτε in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3753”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • as idem, page 42.
  • reduce idem, page 683.
  • when idem, page 975.