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Οἰδίπους

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Οἰδίπους

Structure: Οἰδιποδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: oi)de/w, pou/s

Sense

  1. Oedipus, the swollen footed

Examples

  • Εὔβουλοσ δ’ ἐν Οἰδίποδι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 35 2:4)
  • κἀν τῷ Οἰδίποδι δὲ τῇ τραγῳδίᾳ τὴν νύκτα καὶ τὴν ἡμέραν εἴρηκεν αἰνιττόμενοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 75 1:1)
  • τὸν δὲ Σοφοκλέα διελεῖν φασιν ἀποτολμῆσαι τὸ ποίημα τῷ μέτρῳ τοῦτ’ ἀκούσαντα καὶ ποιῆσαι ἐν τῷ Οἰδίποδι οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 79 2:1)
  • ἂν δ’ ᾖ ἄπιστον, ὑπισχνεῖσθαι δεῖ καὶ αἰτίαν λέγειν εὐθὺσ καὶ διατάττειν ὡσ βούλονται, οἱο͂ν ἡ Ιὀκάστη ἡ Καρκίνου ἐν τῷ Οἰδίποδι ἀεὶ ὑπισχνεῖται πυνθανομένου τοῦ ζητοῦντοσ τὸν υἱόν, καὶ ὁ Αἵμων ὁ Σοφοκλέουσ. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 16 11:4)
  • ὅταν οὖν ἐκείνων τινὶ προσίῃσ, τούτων μέμνησο, ὅτι τραγῳδῷ προσέρχῃ, οὐ τῷ ὑποκριτῇ, ἀλλ’ αὐτῷ τῷ Οἰδίποδι. (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 18:1)

Synonyms

  1. Oedipus

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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