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πολλάκις [α^], Ep. and Lyr. πολλάκι , sts. in Trag. (only lyr.) metri gr., A.Th.227, Supp.131, S.Ph.1456 (anap.); never in Prose: (πολύς): Adv.
I. of Time, many times, often, Il.1.396, etc.; “π. καὶ οὐκὶ ἅπαξ” Hdt.7.46; “π. τοῦ μηνός” X.Cyr.1.2.9; “π. ἀγωνοθέτης” Ephes. 3p.152No.70.
II. of Degree and Number, π. μυρίοι many tens of thousands, Pl.Lg.810d, Tht.175a; of Quantity, [“τὴν] οὐσίαν π. τοσαύτην ἐποίησε” Id.R.330b; of Size, “μεῖζον π.” Plu.2.944a.
2. “τὸ π.” mostly, for the most part, Pi.O.1.32; very much, altogether, “χρὼς ὅμοιος ἐγίνετο πολλάκι θάψῳ” Theoc.2.88; “χαίρετε π Μοῖσαι” Id.1.144.
III. in Att., after conditional particles, perhaps, “σεισμὸς εἰ γένοιτο π.” Ar. Ec.791; ἐάν τι πολλὰ π. πάθω ib.1105: with “ἄρα, ἐὰν ἄρα π. νυμφόληπτος γένωμαι” Pl.Phdr.238d, cf. Phd.60e, D.32.3; also μὴ π. lest perchance, Hp.VC14, Th.2.13, Pl.Prt.361c, al.
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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