κοτε (kote)

κοτε is an Ancient Greek form of ποτέ, meaning “at some time, once, ever”. It is the adverb.

Found 178 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Lucian of Samosata, De Syria dea 18: … κῶς ἂν αὐτὸς ἔπρηξας, εἴ τοι σὴν γυναῖκα ἐπόθεεν, ἐμεῦ τάδε δεόμενος; ὁ δὲ πρὸς τάδε ἔλεγεν ὡς οὐδʼ αὐτὸς ἄν κοτε γυναικὸς ἐφείσατο οὐδὲ παιδὶ σωτηρίης ἐφθόνεεν, εἰ καί τι μητρυιῆς ἐπεθύμεεν· οὐ γὰρ ὁμοίην συμφορὴν ἔμμεναι …

Aretaeus of Cappadocia, De causis et signis acutorum morborum libri duo 1.5: … έρεα· καὶ αὐτοὶ δὲ ἑωυτέοισιν ἕλκουσι τὰ μέρεα, ὅκωσπερ τὴν νοῦσον ἐξαιρούμενοι· καὶ σφέων ἡ τοιήδε ἐπικουρίη κοτὲ καὶ ἐς ἡμέρην τῆν σημασίην διώσατο. πολλοῖσι δὲ φόβος ἐστὶ ὡς ἐπιόντος θηρίου, ἢ σκιῆς φαντασίη, καὶ οὕτω κατ …

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.