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ὥριος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὥριος ὥριᾱ ὥριον

Structure: ὡρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: poet. for w(rai=os

Sense

  1. produced in season, the fruits of the season
  2. in due season, seasonable
  3. the season

Examples

  • τὸ δὲ περιαγόμενον ποτήριον οὐ μεῖζον ἦν κοτυλιαίου, τράγημα δὲ θέρμοσ μὲν ἢ κύαμοσ συνεχῶσ, ποτὲ δὲ καὶ τῶν ὡρίων εἰσεφέρετό τι, τοῦ μὲν θέρουσ ἄπιοσ ἢ ῥόα, τοῦ δ’ ἐάροσ ὦχροι, κατὰ δὲ τὴν χειμερινὴν ὡρ́αν ἰσχάδεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 15 2:2)
  • τράγημα θέρμοσ ἢ κύαμοσ, ἔστι δ’ ὅτε καὶ τῶν ὡρίων ἄπιοσ ἢ ῥοιὰ ἢ ὦχροι ἢ νὴ Δί’ ἰσχάδεσ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, B, Kef. iz'. MENEDHMOS 14:10)
  • οἱ γὰρ ἀστέρεσ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ ὁ Ὠρίων καὶ πᾶσ ὁ κόσμοσ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ τὸ φῶσ οὐ δώσουσι, καὶ σκοτισθήσεται τοῦ ἡλίου ἀνατέλλοντοσ, καὶ ἡ σελήνη οὐ δώσει τὸ φῶσ αὐτῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 13:10)
  • Πλειὰσ μὲν ᾔει μεσοπόρου δι’ αἰθέροσ ὅ τε ξιφήρησ Ὠρίων, ὕπερθε δὲ Ἄρκτοσ στρέφουσ’ οὐραῖα χρυσήρη πόλῳ· (Euripides, Ion, episode 2:8)
  • σύνεγγυσ γάρ ἐστιν ὁ ’ Ὠρίων τῇ ἀστροθεσίᾳ τῶν Πλειάδων· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 80 1:2)
  • ὁ δ’ Ὠρίων, ὡσ μὲν ἔνιοι λέγουσιν, ἀνῃρέθη δισκεύειν Ἄρτεμιν προκαλούμενοσ, ὡσ δέ τινεσ, βιαζόμενοσ Ὦπιν μίαν τῶν ἐξ Ὑπερβορέων παραγενομένων παρθένων ὑπ’ Ἀρτέμιδοσ ἐτοξεύθη. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 1, chapter 4 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. produced in season

  2. in due season

  3. the season

Related

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

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