ὅκως (hokos)

ὅκως is an Ancient Greek form of ὅπως, meaning “how, so that, in order that”. It is the conjunction.

Found 390 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, An vitiositas ad infelicitatem sufficia 4: … καὶ τὴν ἀπορροὴν δεχομένῳ· ὑπὸ τῆς τύχης συντριβήσεσθαι μέλλοντα ἴδιον ἕλκος ἐν ἑαυτῷ καὶ κακὸν ἔχειν σαρκός, ὅκως τὰ προσπίπτοντα ἔξωθεν ὀδυρτὰ ποιήσῃ.

Aretaeus of Cappadocia, De causis et signis diuturnorum morborum libri duo 1.5·2: … ὀλόφυρσοι ἐς κενεὰ, ζωῆς κακήγοροι· ἔρανται δὲ θανάτου. πολλοῖσι δὲ ἐς ἀναισθησίην καὶ μώρωσιν ἡ γνώμη Ῥέπει, ὄκως ἀγνῶτες ἁπάντων, ἢ ἐπιλήσμονες ἑωυτέων, βίον ζώωσι ζωώδεα· ξυντρέπεται δὲ καὶ τοῦ σκήνεος ἐς πονηρὸν ἡ ἕξις· …

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.