Ὠρίων
Third declension Noun; Masculine
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
Ὠρίων
Ὠρίωνος
Structure:
Ὠριων
(Stem)
Sense
- Orion
- a bright constellation
Declension
Third declension
The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.
Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.
- συνῆκασ δὲ δεσμὸν Πλειάδοσ καὶ φραγμὸν Ὠρίωνοσ ἤνοιξασ̣ (Septuagint, Liber Iob 38:31)
- ὡσ ὁ τὸν Ὠρίωνοσ κύνα ἐπαινῶν ἔφη ποιητὴσ λεοντοδάμαν αὐτὸν οὗτοσ γὰρ δὴ κυνὸσ ἐντελὴσ ἔπαινοσ. (Lucian, Pro imaginibus, (no name) 19:8)
- ἀλλ’ ἐκείνη μὲν ἐχώρει τὸν Ἐφιάλτην καὶ τὸν Ὦτον, αὕτη δὲ τοῦ Ὠρίωνοσ , ἦν οἰκητήριον ὁ δ’ Ἀλκμέων ἰλὺν νεοπαγῆ τοῦ Ἀχελῴου προσχωννύντοσ ἐπῴκησεν ὑποφεύγων τὰσ Εὐμενίδασ, ὡσ οἱ ποιηταὶ λέγουσι· (Plutarch, De exilio, section 94)
- ὁ δὲ σοφὸσ Ἀρχέστρατόσ φησιν ἡνίκα δ’ ἂν δύνοντοσ ἐν οὐρανῷ ’ Ὠρίωνοσ μήτηρ οἰνοφόρου βότρυοσ χαίτην ἀποβάλλῃ, τῆμοσ ἔχειν ὀπτὸν σαργὸν τυρῷ κατάπαστον, εὐμεγέθη, θερμόν, δριμεῖ δεδαιγμένον ὄξει· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 117 2:4)
- ὅτι δὲ τὰσ Πλειάδασ τὸ ἐνδοξότατον τῶν ἀπλανῶν ἄστρων ὑπείληφε, δῆλον ἐκ τοῦ προτάττειν αὐτὰσ κατὰ τὴν τῶν ἄλλων συναρίθμησιν ἐν δὲ τὰ τείρεα πάντα τὰ τ’ οὐρανὸσ ἐστεφάνωται, Πληιάδασ θ’ Υἅδασ τε τό τε σθένοσ Ὠρίωνοσ ἄρκτον θ’, ἣν καὶ Ἅμαξαν ἐπίκλησιν καλέουσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 79 4:1)
Synonyms
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a bright constellation
