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ὀφρύη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀφρύη

Structure: ὀφρυ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: ionic for o)fru/s II, Hdt., Eur.

Sense

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

  • τὰ μὲν ἀμφὶ τὴν κόμην καὶ μέτωπον ὀφρύων τε τὸ εὔγραμμον ἐάσει ἔχειν ὥσπερ ὁ Πραξιτέλησ ἐποίησεν, καὶ τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν δὲ τὸ ὑγρὸν ἅμα τῷ φαιδρῷ καὶ κεχαρισμένῳ, καὶ τοῦτο διαφυλάξει κατὰ τὸ Πραξιτέλει δοκοῦν τὰ μῆλα δὲ καὶ ὅσα τῆσ ὄψεωσ ἀντωπὰ παρ’ Ἀλκαμένουσ καὶ τῆσ ἐν κήποισ λήψεται, καὶ προσέτι χειρῶν ἄκρα καὶ καρπῶν τὸ εὔρυθμον καὶ δακτύλων τὸ εὐάγωγον εἰσ λεπτὸν ἀπολῆγον παρὰ τῆσ ἐν κήποισ καὶ ταῦτα. (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 6:2)
  • καὶ δὴ παρακεκλήσθω Πολύγνωτοσ καὶ Εὐφράνωρ ἐκεῖνοσ καὶ Ἀπελλῆσ καὶ Αἐτίων οὗτοι δὲ διελόμενοι τὸ ἔργον ὁ μὲν Εὐφράνωρ χρωσάτω τὴν κόμην οἱάν τῆσ Ἥρασ ἔγραψεν, ὁ Πολύγνωτοσ δὲ ὀφρύων τὸ ἐπιπρεπὲσ καὶ παρειῶν τὸ ἐνερευθὲσ οἱάν τὴν Κασάνδραν ἐν τῇ λέσχῃ ἐποίησεν τοῖσ Δελφοῖσ, καὶ ἐσθῆτα δὲ οὗτοσ ποιησάτω εἰσ τὸ λεπτότατον ἐξειργασμένην, ὡσ συνεστάλθαι μὲν ὅσα χρή, διηνεμῶσθαι δὲ τὰ πολλά· (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 7:7)
  • ἴδεν δὲ Θησεύσ, μέλαν δ’ ὑπ’ ὀφρύων δίνασεν ὄμμα, καρδίαν τέ ϝοι σχέτλιον ἄμυξεν ἄλγοσ, εἶρέν τε· (Bacchylides, , dithyrambs, ode 17 1:6)
  • Βούλει μικρὸν ἀφέλωμαι καὶ τῶν ὀφρύων; (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 18:6)
  • "μικρότερόσ ἐστι γλαυκὸσ καὶ ἐπὶ μολυβδοφανεῖ τῷ χρώματι ὑπόλευκα στίγματα ἔχει δύο τε ἀπὸ τῶν ὀφρύων παρ’ ἑκάτερον κρόταφον ἀναφέρει πτερά. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 45 1:4)

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

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