Ὁρκάνας

Notes (1)

1. The headword is a feminine noun (omicron 591), here in the accusative plural; see generally LSJ and Hesychius s.v. o(rka/nh. It is taken to be extracted from Euripides, Bacchae 611 (web address 1), where Dionysus asks how the chorus-leader felt when he (Dionysus) was being cast into what seemed to be Pentheus' prison chambers.
1. 1The headword is identically glossed in the Synagoge, Photius' Lexicon (omicron482 Theodoridis), and Lexica Segueriana 320.21 (though in this last the headword has its accent on the ultima, o(rkana/s. Compare also Hesychius omicron1228 (nominative singular). ↩