πόσοι (posoi)

πόσοι is an Ancient Greek form of πόσος, meaning “how much? how many?”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective.

Found 58 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Lycurgus 20.4: … θῶς, ἔφη, λέγεις· μόνοι γάρ Ἑλλάνων ἄμμες οὐδὲν κακὸν μεμαθήκαμεν παρʼ ὑμῶν Ἀρχιδαμίδας δὲ πρὸς τὸν πυθόμενον πόσοι εἰσὶ Σπαρτιᾶται, ἱκανοί, εἶπεν, ὦ ξένε, τοὺς κακοὺς ἀπερύκειν.

Plutarch, De Stoicorum repugnantiis 37: … λοῖς; κἀγαθοῖς τοιαῦτα πότερον φησὶν ἀμελουμένων τινῶν, καθάπερ ἐν οἰκίαις μείζοσι παραπίπτει τινὰ πίτυρα καὶ ποσοὶ πυροί τινες, τῶν ὅλων εὖ οἰκονομουμένων· ἢ διὰ τὸ καθίστασθαι ἐπὶ τῶν τοιούτων δαιμόνια φαῦλα, ἐν οἷς τῷ ὄντι …

New Testament, Luke 15.17: εἰς ἑαυτὸν δὲ ἐλθὼν ἔφη Πόσοι μίσθιοι τοῦ πατρός μου περισσεύονται ἄρτων, ἐγὼ δὲ λιμῷ ὧδε ἀπόλλυμαι·

All forms of πόσος (declension table)

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.