οἶστρος
Second declension Noun; Masculine
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
οἶστρος
οἴστρου
Structure:
οἰστρ
(Stem)
+
ος
(Ending)
Sense
- gadfly, breese
- an insect which infests tuna
- a small insectivorous bird, perhaps the willow warbler
Declension
Second 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.
- γίνεται δὲ ἐδώδιμοσ ὅταν τοῦ οἴστρου παύσηται, μίσγεται δὲ μετὰ τὴν φωλείαν, ὥσ φησι Θεόφραστοσ, καὶ ἑώσ μὲν ἂν ἔχῃ μικρὰ τὰ κυήματα, δυσάλωτοσ, ὅταν δὲ μείζω γένηται, διὰ τὸν οἴστρου ἁλίσκεται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 63 1:7)
- θύω, θύννοσ ὁ ὁρμητικόσ, διὰ τὸ κατὰ τὴν τοῦ κυνὸσ ἐπιτολὴν ὑπὸ τοῦ ἐπὶ τῆσ κεφαλῆσ οἴστρου ἐξελαύνεσθαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 125 1:3)
- ἐλελεῦ ἐλελεῦ, ὑπό μ’ αὖ σφάκελοσ καὶ φρενοπληγεῖσ μανίαι θάλπουσ’, οἴστρου δ’ ἄρδισ χρίει μ’ ἄπυροσ· (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode, anapests1)
- νεωτέρῳ γὰρ πρεσβύτεροσ συνὼν οὔθ’ ἡμέρασ οὔτε νυκτὸσ ἑκὼν ἀπολείπεται, ἀλλ’ ὑπ’ ἀνάγκησ τε καὶ οἴστρου ἐλαύνεται, ὃσ ἐκείνῳ μὲν ἡδονὰσ ἀεὶ διδοὺσ ἄγει, ὁρῶντι, ἀκούοντι, ἁπτομένῳ, καὶ πᾶσαν αἴσθησιν αἰσθανομένῳ τοῦ ἐρωμένου, ὥστε μεθ’ ἡδονῆσ ἀραρότωσ αὐτῷ ὑπηρετεῖν· (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 93:4)
