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δήπου , indef. Adv. (better written δή που )
A.perhaps, it may be, “ᾧ δή που ἀδελφεὸν ἔκτανε” Il.24.736: in Trag. and Att. usu. doubtless, I presume, “οὐ δήπου τλητόν” A.Pr.1064; “τῶν Ααΐου δ. τις ὠνομάζετο” S.OT 1042, cf. Ar.Pl.491,582, Th.1.121, etc.; ἴστε γὰρ δή που, μέμνησθε γὰρ δή που, D.2.25, 19.113, cf. 18.249; “σχεδὸν ἴσμεν ἅπαντες δή που” Id.3.9; “οὐδεὶς ἀγνοεῖ δή που” Id.21.156.
II. asinterrog. implying an affirm. answer, τὴν αἰχμάλωτον κάτοισθα δή που; i.e. I presume you know, S.Tr.418; “ἀνόμοιον δή που” Pl.Tht.159b; οὐ δή που; surely it is not so? implying a neg. answer, as Ar.Ra.526, Pl.Men.73c.
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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