# ὅσον
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* ὅσσον (hósson) — Epic

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hó.son/ → /ˈo.son/ → /ˈo.son/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /hó.son/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈ(h)o.son/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈo.son/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈo.son/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈo.son/

### Adjective

ὅσον • (hóson)
* inflection of ὅσος (hósos):
** accusative singular masculine
** nominative/accusative singular neuter

### Adverb

ὅσον • (hóson)
* so far as, so much as
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 21.371
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1367A.34
** 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 1252
** 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 145A
** 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 2.59
** 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 152
** 95 CE – 165 CE, Appian, Civil Wars 4.11
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.222
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 20.360
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 946
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.46
** 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 196D
** 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 153
** 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1509
** 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Cratylus 422C
** 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1239
* how far, how much
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.276
** 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 927
** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 41
** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 346
** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 582
* only so far as, only just
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.354
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.45
** 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 485A
** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 403D
** 342 BCE – 291 BCE, Diphilus, Collected Works 43.14
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 1076A.27
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.92
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.20
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.105
** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 607A
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 778C
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.73
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 7.3.20
** 362 BCE – 262 BCE, Philemon, Collected Works 98.3
** 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 213
** 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of Luke 5:3
** 310 BCE – 240 BCE, Callimachus, Epigrams 47.9
** 310 BCE – 240 BCE, Callimachus, Hymn to Apollo 37
** 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 2.181
** 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 2.190
** 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 3.519
** 340 BCE – 285 BCE, Philitas, Collected Works 7
* (in reference to distances) about, nearly
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 9.325
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 10.517
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 13.114
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.351
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.57
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.96
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.51
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.38
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 229C
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 3.3.28
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 7.3.23
* (with adjectives of quality or degree, mostly with comparative)
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.722
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.186
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.160
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.17
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.516
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 772
** 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 1103
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1433
** 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 524
* (with negatives) just not, all but
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.36
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.59
** 424 BCE, Euripides, Hecuba 141
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.96
** 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 2.4.4
** 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 8.34.8
** 405 BCE, Euripides, The Bacchae 1076
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.125
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.34
** 60 CE – 120 CE, Nicomachus, Introduction to Arithmetic 1.8
** 200 CE – 400 CE, Heliodorus of Emesa, Aethiopica 2.31

#### Derived terms

* ἐς ὅσον (es hóson)
* ἐφ’ ὅσον (eph’ hóson)
* καθ’ ὅσον (kath’ hóson)
* ὅσον μή (hóson mḗ)
* ὁσονοῦν (hosonoûn)
* οὐδ’ ὅσον (oud’ hóson)
* οὐχ ὅσον οὐκ ἠμύναντο (oukh hóson ouk ēmúnanto)