ὀπίσω [ῐ],
Epic dialect ὀπίσσω, the former rare in [
Refs 8th c.BC+];
Aeolic dialect ὐπίσσω [
Refs 7th c.BC+]:—
adverb:
I of Place,
backwards, opposed to to πρόσω, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; to προπρηνές,[
Refs 8th c.BC+]
contraction τοὐπίσω, τὸ ὀ. φεύγειν [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ ὀ. the
hinder parts, [
LXX+1st c.BC+] on the
back (of the papyrus), [
Refs 1st c.BC+]; τἀπίλοιπα ὀ. [
Refs 2nd c.BC+]
I.2 back, back again, of movement, ἀπήνυσαν οἴκαδ᾽ ὀπίσσω [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐν τῇ ὀ. κομιδῇ on his way
back, [
Refs]
I.3 back again, again, of action that reverses an action or occurrence, ἀνακτᾶσθαι ὀ. τὴν τυραννίδα [
Refs]; σφραγίζεις λύεις τ᾽ ὀπίσω [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
I.4 with
genitive, δεῦτε ὀ. μου come
after me, follow me, [
NT]
II of Time,
hereafter, since the future is unseen and was therefore regarded as
behind us, whereas the past is known and therefore before our eyes, ἡμῖν τεκέεσσί τ᾽ ὀπίσσω πῆμα λίποιτο [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; Τρῳαὶ δέ μ᾽ ὀπίσσω πᾶσαι μωμήσονται[
Refs 8th c.BC+]; where ὀπίσσω and πρόσσω are opposed, πρόσσω must be the past and ὀπίσσω the
future, οἶδε νοῆσαι ἅμα πρόσσω καὶ ὀπίσσω [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; οὔτ᾽ ἐνθάδ᾽ ὁρῶν οὔτ᾽ ὀπίσω neither present nor
future, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.2 ἐν τοῖσι ὀ. λόγοις in the books
yet to come, in the
following books, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
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