ὅμως · homōs — LSJ
all the same, nevertheless, used to limit whole clauses, once in Hom. (unless it is read in Od. 11.565), Σαρπήδοντι δʼ ἄχος γένετο . . , ὅ. δʼ οὐ λήθετο χάρμης Il. 12.393 ; ὅ. πιθοῦ μοι S. OT 1064, cf. Ant. 519 ; κοὐκ ἐπίδηλος ὅ. and yet not so as to be observed, Thgn. 442 ; νῦν δὲ ὅ. θαρρῶ Pl. Smp. 193e, etc. : freq. strengthd. by other words, ἀλλʼ ὅ. but still, but for all that, Pi. P. 1.85, Ar. V. 1085, etc. ; ὅ. μήν (Dor. μάν) Pi. P. 2.82, Pl. Plt. 297d ; ὅ. μέντοι Id. Cri. 54d ; ὅ. γε μήν A
freq. in apodosi after καὶ εἰ (κεἰ) or καὶ ἐάν (κἄν), κεἰ τὸ μηδὲν ἐξερῶ, φράσω δʼ ὅ. S. Ant. 234, cf. A. Ch. 933 ; but ὅ., though it belongs in sense to the apodosis, is freq. closely attached to the protasis, μέμνησʼ Ὀρέστου, κεἰ θυραῖός ἐσθʼ ὅ., i.e. κεἰ θ. ἐστι, ὅμως μέμνησο, ib. 115 ; λέξον . . , κεἰ στένεις ὅ., i.e. κεἰ στένεις, ὅ. λέξον, Id. Pers. 295 ; κἂν ἄποπτος ᾖς ὅ., φώνημʼ ἀκούω S. Aj. 15 : sts. it even stands in the protasis, ἐρημία με, κεἰ δίκαιʼ ὅ. λέγω, σμικρὸν τίθησι Id. OC 957
the protasis is freq. replaced by a part., ὕστεροι ἀπικόμενοι ἱμείροντο ὅ. Hdt. 6.120 ; κλῦθί μου νοσῶν ὅ. (i. e. εἰ νοσεῖς ὅ. κλῦθι) S. Tr. 1115 : strengthd., πιθοῦ, καίπερ οὐ στέργων ὅ. A. Th. 712 ; ἱκνοῦμαι, καὶ γυνή περ οὖσʼ ὅ. E. Or. 680 ; τάδʼ ἔρδω, καὶ τύραννος ὢν ὅ. S. OC 851 ; ἐρήσομαι δέ, καὶ κακῶς πάσχουσʼ ὅ. E. Med. 280 : sts. it precedes, τόλμα . . , ὅ. ἄτλητα πεπονθώς, for καίπερ πεπονθώς, ὅ. τόλμα, Thgn. 1029 : in Prose, οἱ δὲ . . ὅ. ταῦτα πυνθανόμενοι ἀρρώδεον Hdt. 8.74 ; οἱ τετρ
where the protasis does not contain a verb, ἀπάλαμόν περ ὅ. (v.l. ὁμῶς) ἐπὶ ἔργον ἐγείρει Hes. Op. 20 ; βαρέα δʼ οὖν ὅ. φράσον A. Th. 810 ; κόλακι, δεινῷ θηρίῳ, ὅ. ἐπέμειξεν ἡ φύσις ἡδονήν Pl. Phdr. 240b.
used to break off a speech, however . . , A. Eu. 74 ; to refer to something previously said or to the general situation, after all, in spite of all, Th. 1.105, 3.28, 80, 7.1.