Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• τόσσος ‎(tóssos) Epic

Pronoun

τόσος • ‎(tósos)

1. so much, so very, so great
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.528
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 17.410
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 680
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 866
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.546
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 21.321
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 14.100
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 22.144
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 705
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.213
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.379
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 21.80
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.686
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 711
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 277
   • 375 BCE – 275 BCE, Alexis 187.1
   1. (used for ὅσος)
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 4.5
      • 500 BCE – 400 BCE, Bacchylides, Collected Works 15.11
   2. (neuter, adverb) so much, so far, so very
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.12
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 6.450
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 22.424
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 4.130
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.371
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 15.405
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 20.178
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.129
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 21.372
      • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 660
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 9.491
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 140
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 896
      • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Oxy. 1606.194
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 271.D
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Eubulides 29
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 721.D
      1. (ἐκ τόσου) so long since
         • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.88
         • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.84
         • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 642.E
      2. (ἐς τόσον) so far
         • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On the Nature of the Woman 2.133
         • 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 3.1146
      3. (ὅσῳ μᾶλλον...τόσῳ, with a comparative)
         • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.28
         • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.24
         • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 665.E
         • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.37
      4. (τόσον) only
         • Oppian, Cynegetica 2.183
   3. (rarely as a regular adverb, τόσως)
      • 458 BCE, Euripides, Electra 1092
      • 431 BCE, Euripides, Medea 1194

Inflection

References

• τόσος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τόσος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• τόσος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «τόσος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «τόσος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• τόσος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • big idem, page 78.
  • great idem, page 372.
  • large idem, page 476.
  • much idem, page 545.
  • such idem, page 834.
• Andrew L. Sihler (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press