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ὅποι , Ion. ὅκοι , Dor.ὅπυι , ὅπυς (qq.v.), Adv. correl. to ποῖ ; on its difference from ὅπῃ, v. sub voce :
1. Relat., to which place, whither, “ἐκεῖσ᾽ ὅ. πορευτέον” S.Aj.690 ; “ἴθ᾽ ὅ. χρῄζεις” Ar.Nu.891 ; “ὅ.” thither where, E.IT119 ; πέμψον . . ὅ. προσωτάτω as far as possible, Id.Andr.922, cf. X.An.6.6.1, etc. ; ὅ. ἄν, with subj., whithersoever, ἀπιέναι ὅ. ἂν βούλωνται Foed. ap. Th.5.18, cf. Pl.Ap.37d, IG12.76.31, etc. ; ὅ. ἂν ἄλλοσε βούλῃ whithersoever else, Pl.Phdr.230e ; also “ὅποιπερ” S.Aj.810, OT1458 (v.l. ὅπηπερ) ; “ὅποι ποτέ” Id.Ph.780, etc.
2. in indirect questions, to what place, whither, “ἀμηχανεῖν ὅποι τράποιντο” A.Pers.459 ; “ἂν σκοπῇ . . ὅποι φέρονται” Antiph.40.7 ; ἴστε ὅθεν ἥλιος ἀνίσχει καὶ ὅποι (ὅπου codd. meliores) “δύεται” X. An.5.7.6 ; μέχρι ὅ. up to what point, Pl.Grg.487c : in repeating a question, ποῖ; Answ. ὅποι μ᾽ ἐρωτᾷς; Crobyl.5.
b. in pregnant sense with Verbs of rest, διδάξαι . . μ᾽ ὅποι καθέσταμεν (i.e. ὅποι ἐλθόντες) S.OC23 ; τοὺς δὲ σοὺς ὅποι θεοὶ πόνους κατοικτιοῦσιν, οὐκ ἔχω μαθεῖν at what point the gods will take pity on (i.e. will end) thy sorrows, ib.383 (v.l. ὅπῃ).
c. c. gen., ὅποι γῆς whither in the world, “ὅποι γῆς . . πεπλάνημαι” A.Pr.564 (anap.) ; “ὅποι τέτραπται γῆς” Ar.Ach.209 ; “οὐκ οἶσθ᾽ ὅποι γῆς οὐδ᾽ ὅποι γνώμης φέρῃ” S.El.922.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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