Ὀΐεσσι
for rams, to rams, with rams; for ewes, to ewes, with ewes
Translated by Catharine Roth28 Apr 2002Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] for/to/with sheep.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὀΐεσσι· προβάτοις.
Betacode
*)oi/+essi: proba/tois.
Notes
- Liksewise in other lexica (references at Photius omicron77 Theodoridis) and in the scholia to Homer, Iliad 5.137, from where the headword is quoted. It is an epic dative plural of the old i-stem noun
o)/i+s (cf. omicron 95, omicron 98, omicron 100). The dative plural ending -essi seems to have been extracted from s-stem nouns like genos; it occurs also in Aeolic dialect inscriptions. See Smyth §250 D (web address 1).
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from4 entries
- ο88Ὀΐoi!It is an exclamation of those who feel grief and displeasure; also those who are afraid say this.
- ο95Ὄϊνewe, ram[Meaning a] sheep. "The ewe, o Demeter who-presides-over-the-furrows, and the hornless calf [Krethon sacrifices to you]." In the Epigrams.
- ο98Ὄϊοςram's, of a ram; ewe's, of a ewe[Meaning] sheep's/of a sheep. Thus Ionians, but Attic speakers [say] ois. And Ionians [say] o-in [two syllables], but Attic speakers oin [one syllable]. And [there is] a proverb: 'a sheep [shows] the knife'. In…
- ο100Ὄϊςewe, ram[Meaning] goat, or sheep.
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- Translated — Catharine Roth