- πού
- πού enclitic adv. (Hom.+; pap, LXX; TestSol 1, 46; Just.; Tat. 37, 1; Mel., P. 72, 530.)① marker of an undetermined position or place, somewhere w. quotations (Diod S 1, 12, 10 ‘the poet’ [=Homer] says ποὺ κατὰ τὴν ποίησιν=somewhere in his poem. Of Cercidas [III B.C.] [ed. Diehl3 Fgm. 11a, 4] ὀρθῶς λέγει που Κερκίδας [quot. follows]. Lucian, Ver. Hist. 2, 42 φησὶ γάρ που κἀκεῖνος [i.e. Antimachus IV B.C.], then a quot.; Appian, Bell. Civ. 1, 97 §452 [with a quot.]; Plut., Mor. 553b [Homeric quot.]; Philo, Ebr. 61 εἶπε γάρ πού τις, and Gen 20:12 follows; Just. A I, 3, 3 ἔφη γάρ που καί τις) Hb 2:6; 4:4; 1 Cl 15:2; 21:2; 26:2; 28:2; 42:5.—After a neg.=nowhere Dg 5:2. W. weakening of the local mng. εἰ δέ που παρηκολουθώς τις τοῖς πρεσβυτέροις ἔλθοι when perchance someone came who had been associated with the ‘elders’ Papias (2:4).② marker of numerical approximation, about, approximately (Paus. 8, 11, 14 περὶ εἴκοσί που σταδίους; Aelian, VH 13, 4; Jos., C. Ap. 1, 104) Ro 4:19.—On δή π., μή π. s. δήπου, μήπου.—μή που (some edd. μήπου; v.l. μήπως. Hom. et al.; BGU 446, 15; Jos., Bell. 7, 397, Ant. 18, 183) conj. lest φοβεῖσθαι μ. π. Ac 27:29.—DELG s.v. πο-. M-M.
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