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Ὠγύγιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ὠγύγιος Ὠγύγιᾱ Ὠγύγιον

Structure: Ὠγυγι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. Ogygian, of or from Ogyges, primeval, primal

Examples

  • καὶ ἀπὸ τούτου τοῖσ πολλοῖσ τῶν ποιητῶν ἐπίκλησισ ἐσ τὰσ Θήβασ ἐστὶν Ὠγύγιαι. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 5 3:1)
  • ἐφαίνετο δὲ εἶναί μοι καὶ τὸ ὄνομα νεώτατον ταῖσ πύλαισ ταύταισ, αἱ δὲ Ὠγύγιαι τὸ ἀρχαιότατον. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 8 9:4)

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

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