Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὄρειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὄρειος ὄρειᾱ ὄρειον

Structure: ὀρει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or from the mountains, mountain-haunting

Examples

  • περὶ μὲν οὖν Σωστράτου ἐν ἄλλῳ βιβλίῳ γέγραπταί μοι καὶ δεδήλωται μέγεθόσ τε αὐτοῦ καὶ ἰσχύοσ ὑπερβολὴ καὶ ἡ ὕπαιθροσ ἐν τῷ Παρνασσῷ δίαιτα, καὶ ἡ ἐπίπονοσ εὐνὴ καὶ τροφαὶ ὄρειοι καὶ ἔργα οὐκ ἀπῳδὰ τοῦ ὀνόματοσ ὅσα ἢ λῃστὰσ αἴρων ἔπραξεν ἢ ὁδοποιῶν τὰ ἄβατα ἢ γεφυρῶν τὰ δύσπορα. (Lucian, (no name) 1:2)
  • οὕτω τοι καὶ τοὺσ ἐπὶ θήρᾳ ἐσπουδακότασ οὐ χρὴ ἀμελεῖν τῆσ Ἀρτέμιδοσ τῆσ Ἀγροτέρασ οὐδὲ Ἀπόλλωνοσ οὐδὲ πανὸσ οὐδὲ Νυμφῶν οὐδὲ Ἑρμοῦ Ἐνοδίου καὶ Ἡγεμονίου, οὑδὲ ὅσοι ἄλλοι ὄρειοι θεοὶ· (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 35 3:1)
  • σιτοφάγοι δὲ καὶ ἀροτῆρεσ Ἰνδοί εἰσιν, ὅσοι γε μὴ ὄρειοι αὐτῶν· (Arrian, Indica, chapter 17 5:1)
  • "οὗτοι καὶ ἕλειοι καὶ ὄρειοι καλοῦνται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 52130)
  • ἀμφὶ δ’ ἐκτύπουν πέτραι, Λοκρῶν τ’ ὄρειοι πρῶνεσ Εὐβοίασ τ’ ἄκραι. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode 5:4)

Synonyms

  1. of or from the mountains

Related

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

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