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ὄφρʼ (ophr)

ὄφρʼ is an Ancient Greek form of ὄφρα, meaning “so that; (Hom.) while, until”. It is the conjunction.

Found 203 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.16: ἔντυε ναυτιλίης πολυκηδέος, ὄφρʼ ἐνὶ πόντῳ

Moschus, Europa 102: δεῦθ’ ἑτάραι φίλιαι καὶ ὁμήλικες, ὄφρ’ ἐπὶ τῷδε

Julian, Emperor of Rome, The Heroic Deeds of the Emperor Constantius, or on Kingship 5: … μοι ἔννεπε, Μοῦσα, Ἀνδρῶν ἠδ’ ἵππων, οἳ ἃμ’ Ἀτρείδαισιν ἕποντο. Ἀνδρῶν μὲν μέγ’ ἄριστος ἔην Τελαμώνιος Αἴας, Ὄφρ’ Ἀχιλεὺς μήνιεν· ὁ γὰρ πολὺ φέρτατος ἦεν. καὶ αὖθις ὑπὲρ τοῦ Τελαμωνίου φησίν· Αἴας, ὃς περὶ μὲν εἶδος, περὶ δ …

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.