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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

  • Ζεύξιδοσ ἐκεῖνο μάλιστα ἐπῄνεσα, ὅτι ἐν μιᾷ καὶ τῇ αὐτῇ ὑποθέσει ποικίλωσ τὸ περιττὸν ἐπεδείξατο τῆσ τέχνησ, τὸν μὲν ἄνδρα ποιήσασ πάντη φοβερὸν καὶ κομιδῇ ἄγριον, σοβαρὸν τῇ χαίτῃ, λάσιον τὰ πολλὰ οὐ κατὰ τὸν ἵππον αὐτοῦ μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ καθ̓ ἕτερον τοῦ ἀνθρώπου, καὶ ἐξάρασ αὐτῷ τοὺσ ὤμουσ ἐπὶ πλεῖστον, τὸ βλέμμα, καίτοι γελῶντοσ, θηριῶδεσ ὅλον καὶ ὄρειόν τι καὶ ἀνήμερον. (Lucian, Zeuxis 10:1)
  • ὣσ κλῶν’ ὄρειον ὁ ξένοσ χεροῖν ἄγων ἔκαμπτεν ἐσ γῆν, ἔργματ’ οὐχὶ θνητὰ δρῶν. (Euripides, episode, lyric 3:4)
  • "γένοσ τὸ καλούμενον ὄρειον καὶ τὸ τοῦ βολβοῦ κώδυον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 274)
  • τὸ γὰρ περιλειπόμενον ἀεὶ γένοσ, ὥσπερ καὶ πρόσθεν ἐρρήθη, κατελείπετο ὄρειον καὶ ἀγράμματον, τῶν ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ δυναστῶν τὰ ὀνόματα ἀκηκοὸσ μόνον καὶ βραχέα πρὸσ αὐτοῖσ τῶν ἔργων. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 23:2)
  • ὄρειον γάρ ἐστι τὸ χωρίον, καὶ αὐτῷ περίκεινται λόφοι πάντοθεν ὀξεῖσ οἱᾶ πρίονεσ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 5 1:4)

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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