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ὀξυωπής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀξυωπής ὀξυωπές

Structure: ὀξυωπη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: w)/y

Sense

  1. sharp-sighted

Examples

  • "οὗτοι δὲ προσεποιοῦντο μήτε ὀξὺ ὁρᾶν παρὰ τὸ δεῖπνον, ἐπεὶ ὁ Διονύσιοσ οὐκ ἦν ὀξυώπησ, ἔψαυόν τε τῶν παρακειμένων ὡσ οὐχ ὁρῶντεσ, ἑώσ ὁ Διονύσιοσ αὐτῶν τὰσ χεῖρασ πρὸσ τὰ λεκάνια προσῆγεν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 55 3:4)

Synonyms

  1. sharp-sighted

Similar forms

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

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