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οἰωνιστήριον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἰωνιστήριον οἰωνιστήριου

Structure: οἰωνιστηρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: from oi)wni/zomai

Sense

  1. a place for watching the flight of birds: - an omen or token

Examples

  • βροντὰσ δὲ ἀμφιλέξει τισ ἢ μὴ φωνεῖν ἢ μὴ μέγιστον οἰωνιστήριον εἶναι; (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, 13:3)
  • ἦν δὲ Ῥωμύλῳ μὲν οἰωνιστήριον, ἔνθα ἠξίου τὴν ἀποικίαν ἱδρῦσαι, τὸ Παλλάντιον, Ῥώμῳ δ’ ὁ προσεχὴσ ἐκείνῳ λόφοσ Αὐεντῖνοσ καλούμενοσ, ὡσ δέ τινεσ ἱστοροῦσιν ἡ Ῥεμορία· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 86 3:2)

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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