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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

  • "ὃν σοφὸν σοφὰν λαβοῦσαν οὐκ ἐπέλπομαι νόῳ δρυμοῖσ ὀρείοισ ὄργανον δίαν Ἀθάναν δυσόφθαλμον αἶσχοσ ἐκφοβηθεῖσαν αὖθισ ἐκ χερῶν βαλεῖν νυμφαγενεῖ χειροκτύπῳ φηρὶ Μαρσύᾳ κλέοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 7 1:3)
  • ἐνταῦθ’ ὀρείοισ ποιμνίοισ ἐπεστάτουν. (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 4:3)
  • καὶ τοῦτο δὲ Μηδικὸν τὸ βασιλέα αἱρεῖσθαι τὸν ἀνδρειότατον, ἀλλ’ οὐ πᾶσιν ἀλλὰ τοῖσ ὀρείοισ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 11, chapter 13 15:1)
  • τοῖσ δ’ ὀρείοισ τῶν Μήδων καὶ πᾶσιν ἔθοσ τοῦτο, ἐλάττουσ δὲ τῶν πέντε οὐκ ἔξεστιν· (Strabo, Geography, Book 11, chapter 13 15:3)

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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