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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

  • "τῶν μαλακοστράκων ὀχεύονται, φησί, κάραβοι, ἀστακοί, καρῖδεσ καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα, ὥσπερ καὶ τὰ ὀπισθουρητικὰ τῶν τετραπόδων, ὀχεύονται δὲ τοῦ ἐάροσ ἀρχομένου πρὸσ τῇ γῇ ἤδη γὰρ ὦπται ἡ ὀχεία πάντων τῶν τοιούτων, ἐνιαχοῦ δὲ ὅταν τὰ σῦκα ἄρχηται πεπαίνεσθαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 65 1:1)
  • καὶ ὅτι ἐπὶ πλεῖστον χρόνον ἐν ὀχείᾳ γίγνεται ἡ ἔχιδνα, καὶ ὅτι μέγιστον μὲν ἐστιν ἡ φάττα, δεύτερον δὲ ἡ οἰνάσ, ἐλάχιστον δὲ ἡ τρυγών. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 47 2:1)
  • νῦν δ’ οὐκ ἀπὸ τύχησ οὐδ’ αὐτομάτωσ περίεσμεν αὐτῶν καὶ κρατοῦμεν, ἀλλ’ ὁ Προμηθεύσ, τουτέστιν ὁ λογισμὸσ αἴτιοσ ἳππων ὄνων τ’ ὀχεῖα καὶ ταύρων γονὰσ δοὺσ· (Plutarch, De fortuna, chapter, section 3 4:1)
  • αἱ γὰρ ἀγελαῖαι τῶν ἵππων οὐχ ὁμοίωσ ὑπομένουσι τοὺσ ὄνουσ ἐπὶ τῇ ὀχείᾳ ἑώσ ἂν κομῶσιν· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 5 9:3)
  • ἐνταῦθα δὲ καὶ τὸ λογιστήριον τὸ στρατιωτικὸν καὶ τὸ ἱπποτροφεῖον, θήλειαι μὲν ἵπποι βασιλικαὶ πλείουσ τῶν τρισμυρίων, ὀχεῖα δὲ τούτων τριακόσια· (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 2 20:7)

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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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