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πω , Ion. κω , enclit. Particle,
A.up to this time, yet, in early Ep. always with a neg., with which it sts. forms one word, cf. οὔπω, μήπω, etc.; sts. a word is interposed, “οὐδ᾽ ἄρα πώ τι ᾔδεε” Il.17.401; “μὴ δή πω . . λυώμεθα . . ἵππους” 23.7, cf. A.Pr.27,511, S.OT105, Tr.591,1061, etc.; “μὴ συναλλάξαντά πω” Id.OT1110.
II. at all, with neg. in Ep., οὐδέ τί πω ἴδμεν （που Ar.Byz.) Il.1.124; “οὔ πω τλήσομ᾽” 3.306; “μὴ δή πω χάζεσθε” 15.426: after Hom. sts. with questions which imply a negative, ἢ ξυναλλάξας τί πω; S.OT1130 (v.l. που）; πόλις ἀφισταμένη τίς πω τούτῳ ἐπεχείρησε; has ever a city meditating revolt . .? Th. 3.45.
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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