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ὀπίσθιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀπίσθιος ὀπίσθιᾱ ὀπίσθιον

Structure: ὀπισθι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from o)/pisqen

Sense

  1. hinder, belonging to the hinder part, the hind-

Examples

  • καὶ δύο στύλουσ ποιήσεισ ἐπὶ τῶν γωνιῶν τῆσ σκηνῆσ ἐκ τῶν ὀπισθίων. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 26:23)
  • εἰ δὲ τὰ ἔμπροσθεν τῶν ὀπισθίων. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 5 10:3)
  • "οἱ δὲ Καρδιηνοὶ πάντεσ τοὺσ ἵππουσ ἐδίδαξαν ἐν τοῖσ συμποσίοισ ὀρχεῖσθαι ὑπὸ τῶν αὐλῶν, καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ὀπισθίων ποδῶν ἱστάμενοι τοῖσ προσθίοισ ὥσπερ χειρονομέοντεσ ὠρχοῦντο ἐξεπιστάμενοι τὰ αὐλήματα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 19 1:9)
  • "καὶ ἐπεὶ ἤκουσαν οἱ ἵπποι τοῦ αὐλοῦ, ἔστησαν ἐπὶ τῶν ὀπισθίων ποδῶν καὶ πρὸσ ὀρχησμὸν ἐτράποντο· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 19 1:13)
  • ὁπλὰσ ἐκίνει τῶν ὀπισθίων ποδῶν Δωριεῖσ δ’ αὐτὸν διὰ τοῦ ω καλοῦσι πώλυπον, ὡσ Ἐπίχαρμοσ· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 185)

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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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