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οἷ , relat. Adv.
A.whither, “οἷ μολὼν δώσεις δίκην” S.Ant.228 ; οἴκησις οἷ πορεύομαι ib.892, cf. El.8 ; “οὐκ ἤκουσας οἷ προβαίνει τὸ πρᾶγμα” Ar.Ach. 836 ; “οἷ χρὴ βλέπειν” Pl.Lg.714b ; οἷ (i. e. εἰς ἃ) “μὲν ἔδει δαπανώμενον . . , οἷ δ᾽ οὐδὲν ἔδει ἀναλώσαντα” Id.Virt.378b ; so “οἷ δή” Id.Prm.127c ; “οἷπερ” S.El.404, Ar.Fr.403 : freq. c. gen., οἷ μ᾽ ἀτιμίας ἄγεις to what a depth of dishonour, S.El.1035 ; “οἷ προελήλυθ᾽ ἀσελγείας” D.4.9.
2. with Verbs of ending, οἷ φθίνει τύχα where, i. e. how, in what, it ends, E. Hipp.371 ; so οἷ τελευτᾷ κακίας in what state of vice he ends, Pl.Smp. 181e. (Orig. loc. of ὅς.）
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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