Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὀρνίθειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀρνίθειος ὀρνίθειᾱ ὀρνίθειον

Structure: ὀρνιθει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or belonging to a bird, fowl's flesh, chicken

Examples

  • εἶτ’ ἀντ’ αὐτῶν κατέπινον κεστρᾶν τεμάχη μεγαλᾶν ἀγαθᾶν κρέα τ’ ὀρνίθεια κιχηλᾶν. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Parodos, anapests23)
  • μὰ τὸν Ἀπόλλω οὐ μή σ’ ἐγὼ περιόψομἀπελθόντ’, ἐπεί τοι καὶ κρέα ἀνέβραττεν ὀρνίθεια, καὶ τραγήματα ἔφρυγε, κᾦνον ἀνεκεράννυ γλυκύτατον. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene 1:6)
  • εὔχεσθε τῇ Ἑστίᾳ τῇ ὀρνιθείῳ καὶ τῷ ἰκτίνῳ τῷ ἑστιούχῳ καὶ ὄρνισιν Ὀλυμπίοισ καὶ Ὀλυμπίῃσι πᾶσι καὶ πάσῃσιν ‐ ὦ Σουνιέρακε χαῖρ’ ἄναξ Πελαργικέ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, strophe 1 1:7)
  • καὶ μὴν τά γ’ ὀρνίθεια λιπάρ’ εἶναι πρέπει. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, strophe 1 1:28)
  • "τῇ μητρὶ ὀρνίθειον ζωμὸν πιστεύσω; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 25 2:1)
  • ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ κύρτη σιδηρᾶ ἀγγεῖόν τι, οἱο͂ν οἰκίσκοσ ὀρνίθειοσ, παρὰ Ἡροδότῳ καὶ Ἀρχιλόχῳ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , unknown167)

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

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