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ὅλοξ 1

I.whole, entire, complete, Lat. integer, οὖλος ἄρτος a whole loaf, Od.; ὅλην πόλιν a whole city, Eur.; ὅλους βοῦς Ar., etc.;— πόλεις ὅλαι are whole, entire cities, opp. to ὅλη ἡ πόλις, the whole city, the city as a whole, Plat.:—with the Art. it may either precede or follow the Subst., τῆς ἡμέρας ὅλης the whole day, δι᾽ ὅλης τῆς νυκτός through the whole night, Xen., etc.
2.whole, i. e. safe and sound, Plat.
3.entire, utter, ὅλον ἁμάρτημα an utter blunder, Xen.; of a person, ὅλος εἶναι πρός τινι = Lat. totus in illis, Dem.
4.neut. as adv., ὅλον or τὸ ὅλον, wholly, entirely, Plat.; ὅλῳ καὶ παντί id=Plat., etc.; τῷ ὅλῳ καὶ παντί id=Plat.;— so, κατὰ ὅλον on the whole, generally, id=Plat.; δι᾽ ὅλου, καθ᾽ ὅλου (v. sub διόλου, καθόλου).
II.as Subst., τὸ ὅλον the universe, id=Plat.
2.τὰ ὅλα, one's all, Dem.; τοῖς ὅλοις ῀ ὅλως, altogether, Philipp. ap. Dem.
III.adv. ὅλως, wholly, altogether, Plat., etc.
2.on the whole, speaking generally, in short, in a word, Like ἑνὶ λόγῳ, Lat. denique, Dem.
3.often with a neg., οὐχ ὅλως not at all, Plat., Xen., etc.

1 ὅλοξ, ιονιξ οὖλος, η, ον

Liddell and Scott. An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1889.

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