Ancient Greek

Pronoun

ὅσπερ • ‎(hósper)

1. the very man who, the very thing which
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 4.524
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.101
   1. (used after adjectives of resemblance)
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.42
      • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1499
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 5.4.34
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.74
2. (several cases are used absolutely)
   1. (ὅπερ) wherefore
      • 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Library 13.18
      • 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Pronouns 103.7
   2. (ἅπερ) as, like
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 381
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 131
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 660
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 168
      • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 175
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 5.1.18
   3. (οὗπερ)
   4. (ᾗπερ) which way, where, whither
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 6.41
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 12.33
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 6.5.10
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.30
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 7.286
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 440
      • 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 364
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.310
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 3.8.2
   5. (logic, ὅπερ ἐστί, ὅπερ ἦν, used to denote the essence)
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Categories 3.B.36
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Categories 6.A.39
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Topics 120.B.23
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Topics 116.A.27
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1153.B.6
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Posterior Analytics 83.A.24
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 1030.A.3
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Posterior Analytics 89.A.35

Inflection

References

• ὅσπερ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὅσπερ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὅσπερ in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ὅσπερ» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ὅσπερ in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3746”, 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.
  • which idem, page 976.
  • who idem, page 977.