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ὁπόθεν , Ep. ὁππόθεν , Ion. ὁκόθεν (never -θε, for
A.“ὁππόθ᾽” Od.3.89 is for ὁππόθι):—Adv. correl. to πόθεν :
1. chiefly used in indirect questions, opp. ὅποι (q.v.), whence, from what place, “εἴρεαι ὁππόθεν εἰμέν” Od.3.80 ; “ἐρέσθαι, ὁππόθεν οὗτος ἀνήρ” 1.406, cf. Pi.P.9.43, Hdt. 2.54 ; “σήμαιν᾽ ὅτου τ᾽ εἶ χὠπόθεν” S.Fr.104.
2. Relat., “ἀπαίροντες . . ὁπόθεν τύχοιεν” Th.4.26 ; “ὁπόθεν . . ῥᾴδιον ἦν λαβεῖν, οὐκ ἦγον” to the place from which, X.An.5.2.2 ; “ὁ αὐτός τι κερδανεῖ” Id.Mem.2.6.4 ; so “ὁ. ἂν τύχῃ” from whencesoever . . , Pl.Tht.180c ; “γαμεῖν ὁ. ἂν βούληται” Id.R. 362b, cf. IG12.58.12 ; “ἡδέως ζῆν . . ἐὰν ἔχῃ τις ὁ.” Philetaer.7.3 ; “ὁ. ἔσοιτο μᾶζα” Pl.Com.33 ; ὁ. ἔτυχεν ἄρχεσθαι at haphazard, Arist.Po. 1450b32 : also with other Particles, “ὁ. ποτέ” Pl.Smp.173d ; “ὁ. δήποτε” D.Chr.31.54 (corr. Emperius for ὁ. δήποθεν) ; “ὁποθενοῦν” Pl.Grg.512a, Arist.Cael.271a24 ; “ὁκοθενοῦν” Hp.Ulc.7 ; “ὁποθενδηποτοῦν” J.AJ8.4.3.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (16):
    • Aristotle, Poetics, 1450b.32
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.54
    • Homer, Odyssey, 1.406
    • Homer, Odyssey, 3.80
    • Homer, Odyssey, 3.89
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 8.4.3
    • Plato, Republic, 362b
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 180c
    • Plato, Symposium, 173d
    • Plato, Gorgias, 512a
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.26
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 5.2.2
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 2.6.4
    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 104
    • Hippocrates, De ulceribus, 7
    • Dio Chrysostom, Orationes, 31.54
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