This word is indefinite and denotes an indefinitely large number.
"How many times have I bitten my heart!"[1]
*(/osa: to\ mo/rion tou=to a)o/riston o)\n a)/peiron plh=qos dhloi= a)riqmou=. o(/sa dh\ de/dhgmai th\n kardi/an.
The Suda chooses to reproduce the shortest and least informative of a series of
scholia on
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 1 (web address 1), which does not even make it clear that
o(/sa is here exclamatory.
[1] This sentence is quoted - or rather, it is misquoted in the same way as here, with
e)mautou= omitted from the Aristophanic text - in a remarkable personal statement by the lexicographer in
pi 44 in which he laments the evil effects of envy, seeing himself as a victim of it.
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