ὅτε,
also [
Refs 5th c.AD+] H.,
Doric dialect ὅκα,
Aeolic dialect ὄτα (which see), Relat.
adverb, formed from the Relat. stem ὁ- and τε (see. τε B), answering to
demonstrative τότε and
interrogative πότ; properly of Time, but sometimes passing into a causal sense (compare ὁπότε).
A of Time,
when, at the time when,
A.I Constr.:
A.I.1 with
indicative to denote single events or actions in past time, with
imperfect or
aorist,
when, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]
pluperfect, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; whither are gone the boasts, [
which we made] when we said.. ? [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; rememberest thou not [
the time] when.. ? [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἄκουσα εὐχομένης ὅτ᾽ ἔφησθα.. [
Refs 8th c.BC+]
A.I.1.b with
present, of a thing always happening or now going on,[
Refs 8th c.BC+]
A.I.1.c rarely with
future, of a definite future, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]
A.I.2 with
optative, to denote repeated events or actions in past time, ἔνθα πάρος κοιμᾶθ᾽, ὅ. μιν γλυκὺς ὕπνος ἱκάνοι
whenever, as often as, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]
A.I.2.b sometimes of future events which are represented as uncertain, in clauses dependent on a Verb in the
optative or
subjunctive, οὐκ ἄν τοι χραίσμῃ κίθαρις.., ὅτ᾽ ἐν κονίῃσι μιγείης [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
A.I.2.c ὅ. μή, in early authors always with
optative, for εἰ μή,
unless, except, save when, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]
subjunctive, [
Refs]
A.I.3 with
subjunctive, only in
Epic dialect and Lyric poetry, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]
A.II Special usages:
A.II.1 in [
Refs 8th c.BC+]
as when, mostly with
subjunctive, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]: the Verb must frequently be supplied from the context, as in [
Refs]
A.II.2 in the
Epic dialect phrase πρίν γ᾽ ὅτε δή.., ἤ is omitted before ὅτε, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]
A.III ὅτε with other Particles,
A.III.1 ὅτ᾽ ἄν, ὅτε κεν, see at ὅταν.
A.III.2 ὅτε δή and ὅτε δή ῥα, stronger than ὅτε, frequently in [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; see infr. IV. I; so ὅτ᾽ ἄρ᾽ [
Refs 8th c.BC+]
A.III.3 ὅτε τε (where τε is otiose, see τε [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
A.III.4 ὅτε περ
even when, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]
A.IV the proper
correlative adverb is τότε, as ὅ. δὴ.., τότε δὴ[
Refs]; ὅ. δὴ.., καὶ τότε δὴ[
Refs]; also νῦν.., ὅ... [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; μεθύστερον, ὅ... [
Refs]; ἤματι τῷ, ὅ... [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; so in
Attic dialect, ἦν ποτε χρόνος, ὅ... [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
A.IV.2 elliptical in the phrase ἔστιν ὅ. or ἔσθ᾽ ὅ.,
there are times when, sometimes, now and then, ἔστι ὅ. [
Refs]; ἔστιν ὅ. [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔσθ᾽ ὅ. [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
B ὅτε sometimes has a causal sense,
when, seeing that, mostly with
present indicative, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; and in Trag. and
Attic dialect Prose, as [
Refs 5th c.BC+]: with
perfect used as
present, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
B.2 sometimes where ὥστε would be more usual, οὕτω.. πόρρω κλέος ἥκει, ὅ. καὶ βασιλεὺς ἠρώτησεν [
Refs]
C ὁτέ Indef.
adverb,
sometimes, now and then, used likeποτέ at the beginning of each of two corresponding clauses,
now.., now.., sometimes.., sometimes.. (not in early Prose, ὁτὲ μὲν.., ὁτὲ δὲ.. [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὁτὲ μὲν.., ὁτὲ δ᾽ αὖτε.. [
Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ὁτὲ μέν τε.., ὅτ᾽ αὖ.. [
Refs]; ὁτὲ μὲν.., ποτὲ δὲ.. [
Refs 2nd c.BC+]; ὁτὲ μὲν.., ὁτὲ δὲ.., καὶ ἄλλοτε.. [
Refs 3rd c.AD+]; ὁτὲ μὲν.., πάλιν δὲ.. [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἐνίοτε μὲν.., ὁτὲ δὲ.. [
Refs]; ὁτὲ μὲν.., ἢ.. [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; also ὁτὲ δέ in the second clause, without any correlative in the first,[
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁτὲ δέ alone, at the beginning of a clause, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
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