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ὀψέ , Aeol. ὄψι (q. v.), Adv.
A.after a long time, at length, late, ἔκ τε καὶ ὀ. τελεῖ, opp. αὐτίκα, Il.4.161; “ὀ. κακῶς ἔλθοι” Od.9.534, etc.; ὀ. διδάσκεσθαι, μανθάνειν, to be late in learning, learn too late, A.Ag.1425, S. OC1264; “ὀψέ γε φρονεῖς εὖ” E.Or.99; also “ὀ. δή” Il.7.399, etc.; “ὀ. γοῦν” A. l.c.; “ὀ. περ” Pi.N.3.80.
b. ὀ. ἀφ᾽ οὗ . . it is not long since . . , Th.1.14.
2. late in the day, at even, Il.21.232, Od.5.272, Th.4.106, etc.; ὀφλεῖν . . ὀ. ὁδοῦ incur a penalty for being out late at night, Pl.Cra.433a (dub.); late in the season, Hes.Op.485; ὀ. ἦν, ὀ. ἐγίγνετο, it was, it was getting, late, X.An.2.2.16, 3.4.36; ἡ μάχη ἐτελεύτα ἐς (v.l. ἕως） ὀ. did not end till late, Th.3.108; so “ἐς ὀψέ” Id.8.23; but εἰς ὀ. ψηφίζεσθαι continue voting till late in the day, D.57.15.
3. c. gen., ὀ. τῆς ἡμέρας late in the day, “ἤδη γὰρ τῆς ἡμέρας ὀ. ἦν” Th.4.93, cf. X.HG2.1.23; “τῆς δ᾽ ὥρας ἐγίγνετ᾽ ὀ.” D.21.84; ὀ. τῆς ἡλικίας late in life, Luc. Dem.Enc.14, cf. Am.37.
4. as Prep. c. gen., ὀ. τούτων after these things, Philostr.VA6.10, cf. 4.18; so perh. ὀ. σαββάτων after the sabbath day, Ev.Matt.28.1.—For the Comp. and Sup. Advbs.v. ὄψιος.
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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