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οἰωνοσκόπος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἰωνοσκόπος οἰωνοσκόπη οἰωνοσκόπον

Structure: οἰωνοσκοπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = oi)wnisth/s, Eur.

Sense

Declension

First/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.

Examples

  • μετὰ τοῦτο ἱεροφαντῶν τε παρόντων καὶ οἰωνοσκόπων καὶ ἱεροποιῶν δυεῖν καὶ ποιησαμένων τὰσ νομίμουσ εὐχάσ τε καὶ ἀρὰσ ἐν τῇ λοχίτιδι ἐκκλησίᾳ συναχθείσῃ ὑπὸ τῶν ὑπάτων ὁ νόμοσ ἐκυρώθη, ὅσ ἐστιν ἐν στήλῃ χαλκῇ γεγραμμένοσ, ἣν ἀνέθεσαν ἐν τῷ Αὐεντίνῳ κομίσαντεσ εἰσ τὸ τῆσ Ἀρτέμιδοσ ἱερόν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 10, chapter 32 6:2)
  • ὁ δὲ τῶν οἰωνοσκόπων ἐπιφανέστατοσ ὁ τοὺσ βωμοὺσ μεθιδρυσάμενοσ καὶ τὸ ἱερὸν τοῦ Διὸσ τεμενίσασ καὶ τἆλλα προλέγων τὰ θεῖα τῷ δήμῳ διὰ μαντικῆσ αὐτὸσ μὲν ἐκαλεῖτο τὸ κοινὸν ὄνομα καὶ προσηγορικὸν Νέβιοσ, τὸ δὲ συγγενικὸν Ἄττιοσ, ὃσ ἁπάντων θεοφιλέστατοσ ὁμολογεῖται γενέσθαι τῶν ἀκριβούντων τὴν τέχνην καὶ μεγίστου τυχεῖν δι’ αὐτὴν ὀνόματοσ ἀπίστουσ τινὰσ ὑπερβολὰσ τῆσ οἰωνομαντικῆσ ἐπιστήμησ ἐπιδειξάμενοσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 70 1:1)
  • τὰσ δὲ φυλετικὰσ μήτε προβουλεύματοσ γενομένου μήτε τῶν ἱερέων τε καὶ οἰωνοσκόπων ἐπιθεσπισάντων, ἐν ἡμέρᾳ μιᾷ τελεσθείσασ ὑπὸ τῶν φυλετῶν τέλοσ ἔχειν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 41 5:1)

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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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