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ὁποῖος , α, ον, Ep. ὁπποῖος , η, ον, Hom., but twice ὁποῖος, Od.17.421,19.77 ; Ion. ὁκοῖος , η, ον, Archil.70, Hdt.2.82, al., GDIivp.883 (Erythrae, iv B. C.); Cret. ὀτεῖος (q. v.): correlat. to ποῖος: replaced by οἷος in Att. Inscrr. after 300 B.C. :
1. as Relat., of what sort or quality, ὁπποῖόν κ᾽ εἴπῃσθα ἔπος, τοῖόν κ᾽ ἐπακούσαις as [is] the word thou hast spoken, such shalt thou hear again, Il.20.250 ; τοίῳ ὁποῖος ἔοι such as he might be, Od.17.421 ; “οὔθ᾽ οἷ᾽ ἔπασχεν οὔθ᾽ ὁποῖ᾽ ἔδρα κακά” S.OT1272.
2. in indirect questions, Od.1.171, etc. ; “εὑρεῖν ὁποίοις φαρμάκοις ἰάσιμος” A.Pr.475 : in direct questions only as f.l. in E.Ph.878,Ba.663 : sts. folld. by ποῖος in the same clause, “οὐ γὰρ αἰσθάνομαί σου ὁποῖον νόμιμον ἢ ποῖον δίκαιον λέγεις” X.Mem.4.4.13 ; “οὐκ οἶδα ὁποίᾳ τόλμῃ ἢ ποίοις λόγοις χρώμενος ἐρῶ” Pl.R.414d.
II. with indefinite words added, “ὁποῖός τις” Th.7.38, X.An.2.2.2 ; “ὁκοῖόν τι” Hdt.1.158 ; “γιγνομένων ὁποῖοί τινες ἔτυχον” Arist.Pol.1286b24 ; so in Hom., ὁπποῖ᾽ ἄσσα of what sort, for ὁποῖά τινα, Od.19.218 ; “ὁποῖ᾽ ἄττα” Pl.Grg.465a ; “ὁποιοσου^ν” of what kind soever, Id.Tht.152d, al. ; ὁποῖος δή, δήποτε, δηποτοῦν, and οὖν δή, as “ὁποία δὴ φλέψ” X.HG5.4.58 ; “τοὺς ὁποιουσδήποτε . . ἐξεπέμπετε στρατηγούς” D.18.146 : gen., “ὁποίου τινὸς οὖν” X.Cyr.2.4.10: acc. fem., “ὁποιαντινοῦν” Lys.13.11 ; “ὁποῖόσπερ” A.Ch.669 ; “ὁποιοσποτοῦν” Arist.Ph.253b23 ; “ὁποιοσδητισοῦν” Iamb. ap. Simp.in Ph.639.30 ; πόλιν . . οὐδ᾽ ὁποίας ἥττω inferior to none, Plb.4.65.3 ; “οὔτ᾽ ἄλλους οὐδ᾽ ὁποίους” Theopomp.Hist.217（c) ; “μηδὲ καθ᾽ ὁποῖον τρόπον” SIG672.14 (Delph., ii B. C.) ; μηδ᾽ ὁτίη or μηδοτίη, v. μηδοτίη.
III. neut. pl. used as Adv., like as, S.OT915, 1076, E.Hec.398.
IV. Adv. ὁποίως, qualiter, Gloss.
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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