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ὀχεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀχεία

Structure: ὀχει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: o)xeu/w

Sense

  1. a covering or impregnating

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἵπποσ εἰσ ὀχείαν ὡσ φίλοσ μωκόσ, ὑποκάτω παντὸσ ἐπικαθημένου χρεμετίζει. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 33:6)
  • κζ Πῶσ ἐπὶ ὀχείαν ἀκτέον τὰσ κύνασ. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter pr29)
  • ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον δ’ ἐπτόηνται περὶ τὴν ὀχείαν οἱ πέρδικεσ καὶ οἱ ὄρτυγεσ ὡσ εἰσ τοὺσ θηρεύοντασ ἐμπίπτειν καθίζοντασ ἐπὶ τῶν κεφαλῶν φασὶ δὲ καὶ τοὺσ ἀγομένουσ θήλεισ πέρδικασ ἐπὶ θήραν, ὁπόταν ἴδωσιν ἢ ὄσφρωνται τῶν ἀρρένων κατ’ ἄνεμον στάντων ἢ περιπετομένων, ἐγκύουσ γίγνεσθαι, τινὲσ δὲ καὶ παραυτίκα τίκτειν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 41 6:1)
  • ἄρρενα δὲ τὸν ἐρινεόν, ὀχείαν δὲ τὴν πρόσφυσιν, τέλοσ ἔχειν τὸν χρησμὸν ὑπέλαβε· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 19, chapter 2 2:5)
  • οὗ ἕνεκα καὶ ἀποκείρουσι πρὸσ τὴν ὀχείαν τὰσ ἵππουσ ἅπαντεσ οἱ ὀνοβατοῦντεσ. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 5 9:4)

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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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