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τοσοῦτος

tosoutos

so large, so tall

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What it meant

τοσοῦτος · tosoutos — LSJ

so large, so tall, so great, so many, so, so, of the same height, to the same number, only so few

= τόσος in all senses, but like τοσόσδε with stronger demonstr. sense: Hom. has both common and Ep. forms, but not so freq. as τόσος or τόσσος, while in Trag. (not in E.) it is common, and in Prose the prevailing form, cf. τοσόσδε:—freq. answered by the Relat. ὅσος, S. Ph. 1076, Pl. R. 330b, etc.; by ὁπόσος, Id. Smp. 214a, etc.; by ὅστις, Hdt. 7.49; also by Adv. ὡς, Od. 21.402; τ. ἐγένετο ὥστε . . X. Cyn. 1.9: freq. also, like τοσόσδε, abs., ἄφενος τ. Od. 14.99; of persons, so large, so tall, et

II so much, thus much, so small a distance, so far, so far, so far, the meantime, so far, so far, so far, so long

neut. as Subst., so much, thus much, τοσσοῦτον ὀνήσιος Od. 21.402, cf. S. OT 836, OC 790; τ. οἶδα Id. Aj. 748, cf. 441, etc.; referring to what precedes, τοσαῦτα . . εἰρήσθω Hdt. 3.113; τοσαῦτʼ ἔλεξε A. Pers. 372, cf. Pr. 621, Ag. 680, etc.: freq. with Preps., διὰ τοσούτου at so small a distance, so near at hand, Th. 2.29; ἐς τοσοῦτο (ν) so far, Hdt. 3.113, 6.134; ἐς τ. ἥκομεν, ὥστε . . Lys. 27.10; ἐς τ. ἐλπίδων βεβώς S. OT 771, cf. OC 748, Ar. Nu. 832, Pl. Ap. 25e, etc.; ἐκ τ. from so far, so f

III so much, so far

neut. also as Adv., so much, so far, ἢ τοσσοῦτον . . ἢ ἔτι μᾶσσον Od. 8.203; τ. ὀδύρομαι 21.250; σθένειν τ. ὥστε . . S. Ant. 453, etc.; τοσοῦτον, ὅσον . . Th. 3.49, cf. 1.11, 88, X. An. 3.1.45, etc.: pl., τοσαῦτα μάχεσθαι ὅσα ἀναγκάζονται Th. 7.81, cf. Pl. Alc. 1.108a: with Adjs., τοσοῦτον φιλέλλην Sor. Vit.Hippocr. 8; νεώτατος τ. Il. 23.476; τ. εὐτυχέστεροι Lys. 2.16:—but τοσούτῳ is more freq. with Comparatives, Hdt. 7.49, Pl. R. 576b, X. HG 4.8.4, etc.; or with words implying comparison, τοσού

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