Perseus analyses of τόσσον:

τόσος (so great, so vast): masc acc sg
τόσος (so great, so vast): neut nom/voc/acc sg

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τόσος

τόσος, Ep. τόσσος, η, ον (both forms in Hom. (v. infr.) and Hes. (Op. 680,711, Th. 705), the latter form also in Trag. (lyr.), S. Aj. 184), Demonstr. corresponding to the Relat. ὅσος and interrog. πόσος :—of Size, Space, and Quantity,

A. so great, so vast: of Time, so long: of Number, pl., so many: of Sound, so loud: generally of Degree, so much, so very:—freq. answered by the Relat. ὅσος, οὔ τι τόσος γε ὅσος Τελαμώνιος Αἴας Il. 2.528; κακὸν τόσον ὅσσον ἐτύχθη 17.410, cf. Hes. Op. 680: sts. with an Adv. as relat., τόσων . . ὡς . . A. Ag. 866: freq. abs., when it either refers to something already mentioned, so great or so many, Il. 9.546, 21.321, or to a wellknown magnitude, which may be great or small, acc. to the context, just so much or just so many, Od. 14.100, 22.144, Hes. Th. 705, etc.: with numeral Adverbs, τρὶς τόσσα . . δῶρα thrice as many, Il. 1.213, cf. 9.379, 21.80, 24.686; δὶς τόσα τείνυσθαι Hes. Op. 711; δὶς τόσον [κακόν] Thgn. 1090; δὶς τόσʼ ἐξ ἁπλῶν κακά S. Aj. 277; τόσαι τρίς Alex. 187.1.—Τόσος is used thus only in Poets, τοσόσδε or τοσοῦτος being used in Att. Prose, exc. in the neut., v. infr. II.

2. rarely poet. for ὅσος, Pi. N. 4.5, B. 15.11, Call. Ap. 94.

II. in Hom. τόσον and τόσσον are common as Adv. with Verbs and Adverbs, so much, so far, so very; with a relat., τόσσον . . , ὅσον Il. 3.12, cf. 6.450, al.; τόσσον . . , ὡς . . 22.424; τόσον . . , ὡς ὅτε . . 4.130: freq. abs., λίην τ. so very, Od. 4.371, 15.405; τόσσον πολλόν so very far, Il. 20.178; τ. πλέες so many more, 2.129; τ. φέρτερος Od. 21.372; τόσσον . . πεπείρημαι Hes. Op. 660; δὶς τόσσον . . ἀπῆμεν Od. 9.491, cf. A. Ag. 140 (lyr.), Eu. 896, etc.: in Prose, τόσον νυνὶ φρόνει . . ὅσονπερ τότε prob. in Lys. Oxy. 1606.194 (Bodl.Quart.Record 5.303); τόσα καὶ τόσα so and so many, Pl. Phdr. 271d; ἔτη τ. καὶ τ. D. 57.29; ζημιοῦσθαι τόσῳ καὶ τόσῳ Pl. Lg. 721d.

2. ἐκ τόσου ever since (that), always of Time, freq. in Hdt., as 5.88, 6.84, cf. Pl. Lg. 642e; ἀπολήμψῃ ἐν τόσῳ in the meantime, POxy. 298.17 (i A. D.).

4. ὅσῳ μᾶλλον . . , τόσῳ . . , with a Comp., Th. 4.28; ὅσῳ ἐπὶ τὸ μεῖζον . . , τόσῳ ἐχυρώτερον . . Id. 8.24, cf. Pl. Lg. 665e, etc.; ὅσῳπερ . . , τόσῳ . . ib.902e; ὅσῳ . . , τόσῳ δὲ . . (Hertlein for τοσῷδε) Th. 1.37.

5. τόσον only, Opp. C. 2.183; so τόσσον PSI 9.1030.16 (ii A.D.). (Cf.Lat.tantum.)

III. rarely as regul. Adv. τόσως, δὶς τ. ἐμὲ κτείνας ἀδελφῆς E. El. 1092, cf. Med. 1194.