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ὁπηνίκα^ , Dor. ὁπα_νίκα , Adv., relat. and indirect interrog.,
A.at what point of time, at what hour, on what day, more precise than ὁπότε, S. OC434, Th.4.125, Theoc.23.33 ; though sts. it cannot be distd. from ὁπότε, Pl.Alc.1.105d, Jul.Or.7.204a, al. ; “ὁπότε καὶ ὁ.” Pl.Lg.772d ; ὁ. ἄν at whatever hour or time, S.Ph.464 ; whenever, PGiss.53.3 (iv A. D.); simply, when, LXX 4 Ma.2.16.
2. in indirect questions, in answer to a direct question, πηνίκ᾽ ἐστὶν ἄρα τῆς ἡμέρας ;— ὁπηνίκα; what time of day is it ?—what time, do you say ? Ar.Av. 1499.
3. c. gen., οὐδεὶς οἶδ᾽ ὁ. ἐστὶ τοὐνιαυτοῦ what time of year, Id.Fr.569.7.
II. with conditional or causal force, ὁ. ἐφαίνετο ταῦτα πεποιηκώς when once it was seen that . . , D.18.14, cf. 21.42.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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