Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὠκύαλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὠκύαλος ὠκύαλον

Structure: ὠκυαλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a(/ls

Sense

  1. sea-swift, speeding o'er the sea

Examples

  • πομπίλον ὠκυάλων νηῶν αἰανὸν ὁδουρόν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 19 3:1)
  • ἰὼ ἰώ, νῦν αὖ, νῦν, ὦ Ζεῦ, πάρα λευκὸν εὐάμερον πελάσαι φάοσ θοᾶν ὠκυάλων νεῶν, ὅτ’ Αἰάσ λαθίπονοσ πάλιν, θεῶν δ’ αὖ πάνθυτα θέσμι’ ἐξήνυσ’ εὐνομίᾳ σέβων μεγίστᾳ. (Sophocles, Ajax, choral, antistrophe 12)

Synonyms

  1. sea-swift

Related

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

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