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ὀφθαλμία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀφθαλμία

Structure: ὀφθαλμι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: o)fqalmo/s

Sense

  1. ophthalmia

Declension

First 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.

Examples

  • ἐπεὶ τούτῳ γε τῷ λόγῳ χρώμενοι λέγομεν ὅτι κουφότερόν ἐστιν ὀφθαλμία μανίασ καὶ ποδάγρα φρενίτιδοσ, ὁ μὲν γὰρ αἰσθάνεται καὶ καλεῖ τὸν ἰατρὸν κεκραγώσ, καὶ παρόντι τὴν ὄψιν ἀλεῖψαι, τὴν φλέβα τεμεῖν, παραδίδωσιν τῆσ δὲ μαινομένησ Ἀγαύησ ἀκούεισ ὑπὸ τοῦ πάθουσ τὰ φίλτατ’ ἠγνοηκυίασ, ἄγομεν ἐξ· (Plutarch, Animine an corporis affectiones sint peiores, section 3 1:2)
  • ἐπεὶ τούτῳ γε τῷ λόγῳ χρώμενοι λέγομεν, ὅτι κουφότερόν ἐστιν ὀφθαλμία μανίασ καὶ ποδάγρα φρενίτιδοσ. (Plutarch, Animine an corporis affectiones sint peiores, section 3 3:2)
  • ὅθεν ἐοίκεν ὁ μὲν φθόνοσ ἀόριστοσ εἶναι, καθάπερ ὀφθαλμία πρὸσ ἅπαν τὸ λαμπρὸν ἐκταρασσόμενοσ· (Plutarch, De invidia et odio, section 2 2:1)
  • ὀφθαλμία σοι οὖν δοκεῖ πᾶσα νόσοσ εἶναι; (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 11:4)
  • ἆρ’ οὖν καὶ πᾶσα νόσοσ ὀφθαλμία; (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 11:6)
  • ὀφθαλμιᾷ τισ, εἰσὶ Φινεῖδαι τυφλοί, τέθνηκέ τῳ παῖσ, ἡ Νιόβη κεκούφικε. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 2 1:4)

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

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