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ὀψοφαγία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀψοφαγία

Structure: ὀψοφαγι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from o)yofa/gos

Sense

  1. dainty living

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

  • εἰσ δὲ ὀψοφαγίαν ἐν μὲν Φαίδωνι ἢ Φαιδρίᾳ οὕτωσ ἀγορανομήσεισ, ἂν θεοὶ θέλωσι, σύ, ἵνα Καλλιμέδοντ’ εἰσ τοὔψον, εἰ φιλεῖσ ἐμέ, παύσῃσ καταιγίζοντα δὶσ τῆσ ἡμέρασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 24 3:1)
  • Δημοσθένησ δ’ ὁ ῥήτωρ Φιλοκράτην, ἐπειδὴ ἐκ τοῦ προδοτικοῦ χρυσίου πόρνασ καὶ ἰχθῦσ ἠγόραζεν, εἰσ ἀσέλγειαν καὶ ὀψοφαγίαν λοιδορεῖ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 311)
  • οὐδὲν γὰρ πλέον ὀψοφαγῶν ποιήσεισ τοῦ δ’ αὐτοῦ καὶ τὸν ἀγρὸν καταβεβρωκότοσ εἰσ ὀψοφαγίαν, ἐπειδὴ θερμόν ποτε καταβροχθίσασ ἰχθὺν ἔφησε τὸν οὐρανὸν κατακεκαῦσθαι, ’ λοιπόν, ’ ἔφησεν, ’ ἐστίν, ’ ὁ Θεόκριτοσ, · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 32 1:1)
  • καὶ σκωπτόμενοσ ὑπό τινων σπερμολόγων εἰσ ὀψοφαγίαν ἐρομένων τε ἐκείνων τί ἂν ἥδιστα φάγοι, ὁ Ἄλεξισ ’ σπερμολόγουσ ἔφη, ’ πεφρυγμένουσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 32 2:3)
  • τοῦ δ’ ἐμβλέψαντοσ αὐτῷ, ’ τί οὖν, ’ ἔφη, ’ τοὺσ συζῶντάσ σοι οἰεί πάσχειν, εἰ σὺ μίαν ἡμέραν μὴ δεδύνησαι ἐνεγκεῖν τὴν ἐμὴν ὀψοφαγίαν; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 35 2:1)

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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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