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δήποτε , indef. Adv. (better written δή ποτε ), Ion. δήκοτε , Dor. δήποκα ,
A.at some time, once upon a time, Od.6.162, E.Supp.1131 (lyr.); “αἰεὶ δ.” Th.8.73; at length, A.Ag.577.
2. εἰ δή ποτε if ever, Il.1.40.
3. with interrog., τί δή ποτε; what in the world? what or why now? “καίτοι τί δή ποτε;” D.4.35; πόσοι δή ποτ᾽ εἰσὶν οἱ . .; how many do you suppose? Id.20.21.
4. esp. freq. with relatives, “ὅτι δή κοτε πράξαντα” Hdt.6.134; “ὅστις δ. ὤν” Pl.Phdr.273c; ὅτι δή ποτε whatever it may be, 'so-and-so', D.21.32; “ὁπόθεν δ.” Id.35.6: strengthd. by “οὖν, ὅντινα δή ποτ᾽ οὖν τρόπον” Id.40.8; οἷος δή ποτ᾽ οὖν v.l. in Dsc.5.10; also δή ποτ᾽ οὖν without relat., “κατὰ πρεσβείαν ἢ κατ᾽ ἄλλην δ. χρείαν” Arch.Pap.6.9 (Delos).
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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