πολλάκις [ᾰ],
Epic dialect and Lyric poetry
πολλάκι, sometimes in Trag. (only Lyric poetry) for the sake of meter, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; never in Prose: (πολύς):
adverb I) of Time,
many times, often, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]
II) of Degree and Number, π. μυρίοι
many tens of thousands, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; of Quantity, [τὴν] οὐσίαν π. τοσαύτην ἐποίησε [
Refs]; of Size, μεῖζον π. [
Refs 1st c.AD+]
II.2) τὸ π.
mostly, for the most part, [
Refs 5th c.BC+];
very much, altogether, χρὼς ὅμοιος ἐγίνετο πολλάκι θάψῳ [
Refs 3rd c.BC+]
III) in
Attic dialect, after conditional particles,
perhaps, σεισμὸς εἰ γένοιτο π. [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐάν τι πολλὰ π. πάθω[
Refs 5th c.BC+]; also μὴ π. lest
perchance, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]