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οἰταῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἰταῖος

Structure: οἰται (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of Oeta, the men of Oeta

Examples

  • ὅσιά τε φωνεῖσ ἔστι τ’, ὦ τέκνον, θέμισ, ὅσ γ’ ἡλίου τόδ’ εἰσορᾶν ἐμοὶ φάοσ μόνοσ δέδωκασ, ὃσ χθόν’ Οἰταίαν ἰδεῖν, ὃσ πατέρα πρέσβυν, ὃσ φίλουσ, ὃσ τῶν ἐμῶν ἐχθρῶν μ’ ἔνερθεν ὄντ’ ἀνέστησασ πέρα. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode 3:28)
  • τὴν γὰρ Λοκρικὴν καὶ τὴν Οἰταίαν εἰρήκαμεν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 9, chapter 5 17:2)

Related

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

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