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πόσῳ (poso)

πόσῳ is an Ancient Greek form of πόσος, meaning “how much? how many?”. It is the dative singular neuter adjective.

Found 97 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.9: … Πλάτων πολλὰ τῶν Ἐπιχάρμου λέγων. σκεπτέον δέ· ὁ Πλάτων φησὶν αἰσθητὸν μὲν εἶναι τὸ μηδέποτε ἐν τῷ ποιῷ μηδὲ ποσῷ διαμένον ἀλλʼ ἀεὶ ῥέον καὶ μεταβάλλον,

Euripides, Suppliants 769: οἴμοι· πόσῳ σφιν συνθανεῖν ἂν ἤθελον.

Lucian of Samosata, Hermotimus 16: … ιτο παρεὶς τὰς ἄλλας. Ἐγώ σοι φράσω. ἑώρων τοὺς πλείστους ἐπ' αὐτὴν ὁρμῶντας ὥστε εἴκαζον ἀμείνω εἶναι αὐτήν. Πόσῳ τινὶ πλείους τῶν Ἐπικουρείων ἢ Πλατωνικῶν ἢ Περιπατητικῶν; ἠρίθμησας γὰρ αὐτοὺς δηλαδὴ καθάπερ ἐν ταῖς χειροτ …

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.