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ὁπόταν

ὁπόταν, ὁπόταν, whenever (conjunction)

ὁπότᾰν, i. e. ὁπότʼ ἄν, as it is freq. written in codd. (the distn. did not exist for the Greeks): Adv., related to ὅταν as ὁπότε to ὅτε (v. ὁπότε),
  • whensoever, used only with subj., Il. 15.209, etc. (Hom. uses ὁππότε κεν in the same way, Il. 4.40, 229, al.): rarely after past tenses, πολλὰς . . ᾔσθου πλαγάς, ὁπόταν . . νὺξ ὑπολείφθῃ (for ὁπότε νὺξ ὑπολειφθείη) S. El. 91 (anap.): never with ind. in early writers, for φθέγξομαι (Il. 21.340), ἱμείρεται (Od. 1.41) are Ep. aor. subj. forms, and in Od. 16.282 θῇσιν is the right reading: never with opt. save in late writers (unless the Mss. can be trusted in Pl. Alc. 2.146a), for in Il. 7.415 ὁππότʼ ἄρʼ is the reading of the best codd.; in X. Cyr. 1.3.11 ὁπότε ἥκοι is the right reading.
    • II as soon as, ὁπότʼ ἂν τὸ πρῶτον ἴδῃ φάος h.Ap. 71.

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