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ποτέρ-ως , Adv. of πότερος,
A.in which of two ways? π. ἂν μᾶλλον ἄνθρωποι σωφρονοῖεν, ἀργοῦντες ἢ . . ἐπιμελόμενοι; ib.2.7.8, cf. 1.6.15, etc.; πότερόν ἐστιν αὐτῆς (sc. τῆς τραγῳδίας）“ τὸ ἐπιχείρημα . . , χαρίζεσθαι . . , ἢ καὶ διαμάχεσθαι; π. σοι δοκεῖ . .;” Pl.Grg.502b, cf. Cra. 435e; π. οὖν οἴει μᾶλλον ἂν φοβεῖσθαι . . , εἰ ὁρῷεν . . , ἢ εἰ καταδοξάσειαν . .; X.An.7.7.30.
2. in indirect questions, “διορίσαι, π. λέγεις” Pl. R.341b; διερευνήσασθαι . . π. ἔχει ib..368c, cf.Plt.272d.
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 (8):
    • Plato, Republic, 368c
    • Plato, Republic, 341b
    • Plato, Cratylus, 435e
    • Plato, Statesman, 272d
    • Plato, Gorgias, 502b
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 7.7.30
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 1.6.15
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 2.7.8
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