ὄϊος
From LSJ
ὅτι χρὴ τοῦ μέλιτος ἄκρῳ δακτύλῳ, ἀλλὰ μὴ κοίλῃ χειρὶ γεύεσθαι → that honey should be tasted with the fingertip and not by the handful
English (LSJ)
οἰός, gen. of ὄϊς, οἶς.
ὄϊος [ῐ], α, ον, (ὄϊς)
A of a sheep, γάλα ὄ. ewe-milk, Hp.Vict.2.41 ; ὄϊον ἔριον Polem.Hist.88 ; οἰὸς οἰότερον more sheepish than a sheep, Sophr. 122 (v. dub.). (In Hp. and Polem.Hist.ll.cc. ὄειος (like βόειος) shd. be read ; cf. ὀέα.)
German (Pape)
[Seite 311] vom Schaafe; γάλα, Schaafmilch, Hippocr.; ἔρι ον, Schaafwolle, Polemo bei Ath. XI, 478 d.
