ὡσεί · hōsei — LSJ
as if, as though
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ὡσεί
osei
as if, as though
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Distribution
- Psalmi 67 · 19.6/10k
- Jonas 2 · 19.01/10k
- Daniel (LXX) 17 · 16.18/10k
- Odae 6 · 14.76/10k
- Judices (cod. Al.) 10 · 6.84/10k
- Numeri 14 · 6.06/10k
- Canticum 1 · 5.14/10k
- Luke 9 · 4.67/10k
- Exodus 11 · 4.65/10k
- Deuteronomium 10 · 4.47/10k
- Trojan Women 3 · 4.24/10k
- Hebrews 2 · 3.98/10k
Densest 12 of 39 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
Senses
Attestations
- ὡσεὶ · hōsei Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 3.12.1 (DIORISIS sentence 289)
- ὡσεὶ · hōsei Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 9.42.4 (DIORISIS sentence 1614)
- ὡσεὶ · hōsei Herodotus, Histories 7.109.2 (DIORISIS sentence 7701)
- ὡσεί · hōsei Sophocles, Antigone 653–654
- ὡσεί · hōsei Sophocles, Electra 232–235
- ὡσεί · hōsei Euripides, Suppliants 1.960 (DIORISIS sentence 567)
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