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ὁπηνίκᾰ

openika

at what point of time, at what hour, on what day

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ὁπηνίκᾰ · hopēnika — LSJ

at what point of time, at what hour, on what day, at whatever hour, time, whenever, when

at what point of time, at what hour, on what day, more precise than ὁπότε, S. OC 434, Th. 4.125, Theoc. 23.33 ; though sts. it cannot be distd. from ὁπότε, Pl. Alc. 1.105d, Jul. Or. 7.204a, al. ; ὁπότε καὶ ὁ. Pl. Lg. 772d ; ὁ. ἄν at whatever hour or time, S. Ph. 464 ; whenever, PGiss. 53.3 (iv A. D.); simply, when, LXX 4 Ma. 2.16.

2 what time

in indirect questions, in answer to a direct question, πηνίκʼ ἐστὶν ἄρα τῆς ἡμέρας ;— ὁπηνίκα; what time of day is it ?—what time, do you say ? Ar. Av. 1499.

3 what time

c. gen., οὐδεὶς οἶδʼ ὁ. ἐστὶ τοὐνιαυτοῦ what time of year, Id. Fr. 569.7.

II when once

with conditional or causal force, ὁ. ἐφαίνετο ταῦτα πεποιηκώς when once it was seen that . . , D. 18.14, cf. 21.42.

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