ἡνίκα

A. at the time when, usu. with past tenses of ind., Od. 22.198 (nowhere else in Hom.), Pi. l.c., S. Aj. 1144, al., Th. 7.73, Ar. Nu. 607, Lys. 19.4, Pl. Grg. 509e, D. 21.78, etc.; ἡνίκ’ ἐχρῆν δύνειν, νῦν ἄρχεται ἡδύνεσθαι Timo17: with pres. ind., ἡνίκαπερ X. Cyr. 8.8.9; μετὰ τὴν ζωὴν . . ἡνίκ’ οὐκ εἰσίν Phld. Mort. 36; rarely while, ἡ. ἦν ἔτ’ ἐν φάει E. Ion 726.

2. ἡνίκ’ ἄν, like ὅταν, with Subj., of fut. time, whenever, S. Ph. 880, OT 1492: to denote repeated occurrence in pres. time, Id. Ph. 310, Ar. Pax 1179, X. Cyr. 1.2.4, etc.; ἄν shd. be restored in A. Fr. 304.7; ἄν goes with Verb in ἡνίκ’ ἂν ὠφέλει when it would have been to his advantage, D. 29.16; but ἡνίκ’ ἂν ἀνέβη ἡ νεφέλη, of repeated occurrence, LXX Ex. 40.36(30).

3. with opt. in orat. obliq., or to denote an uncertain or repeated occurrence in past time, whenever, S. Ph. 705 (lyr.): also in orat. obliq., of future time, ἡνίκα . . ἀπείη when he should have been absent, Id. Tr. 164; but ἡνίκ’ ἂν ἡμεῖς μὴ δυναίμεθα, with implied protasis, D. 4.31; and so ἡνίκ’ ἂν καταλαμβάνοιμι, εἰ τυγχάνοιμι X. Oec. 11.14.

4. c. gen., ἡ. τοῦ χρόνου at which point of time, Ael. NA 12.35.

5. ἡ. χρὴ φλεβοτομεῖν in which case . . , Orib. Syn. 6.13.

6. after Verbs of knowing or remembering, οὐ μνημονεύεις . . ἡνίκα . .; S. Aj. 1273; οἶδ’ ἡνίκ’ Αἴας εἷλκε Κασάνδραν E. Tr. 70, cf. Ar. Ec. 815.