ὁπότᾰν · hopotan — LSJ
whensoever
whensoever, used only with subj., Il. 15.209, etc. (Hom. uses ὁππότε κεν in the same way, Il. 4.40, 229, al.): rarely after past tenses, πολλὰς . . ᾔσθου πλαγάς, ὁπόταν . . νὺξ ὑπολείφθῃ (for ὁπότε νὺξ ὑπολειφθείη) S. El. 91 (anap.): never with ind. in early writers, for φθέγξομαι (Il. 21.340), ἱμείρεται (Od. 1.41) are Ep. aor. subj. forms, and in Od. 16.282 θῇσιν is the right reading : never with opt. save in late writers (unless the Mss. can be trusted in Pl. Alc. 2.146a), for in Il. 7.415 ὁππ
II as soon as
as soon as, ὁπότʼ ἂν τὸ πρῶτον ἴδῃ φάος h.Ap. 71.