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|Definition=ὁ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[furrow]] in [[ploughing]], τοὶ δὲ στρέψασκον ἀν' ὄγμους <span class="bibl">Il.18.546</span>; πίονες ὄγμοι <span class="bibl"><span class="title">h.Cer.</span>455</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[swathe]] in [[reaping]], ὥς τ' ἀμητῆρες ὄ. ἐλαύνωσιν <span class="bibl">Il.11.68</span>; δράγματα δ' ἄλλα μετ' ὄ. . . πῖπτον <span class="bibl">18.552</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">557</span>; ὄ. ἄγειν ὀρθόν <span class="bibl">Theoc.10.2</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[strip]] of [[cultivated]] [[land]] (written [[ὤγμος]]), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PFay.</span>120.7</span> (ii A.D.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">BGU</span>166.7</span> (ii A.D.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> metaph., <b class="b3">ὅ τε πλήθει μέγας ὄ</b>. [the moon's] [[vast]] [[orbit]] is [[accomplished]], <span class="bibl"><span class="title">h.Hom.</span> 32.11</span>; of the sun, <span class="bibl">Arat.749</span>; of a [[hippopotamus]], παλίσσυτον ὄ. ἐλαύνων <span class="bibl">Nic.<span class="title">Th.</span>571</span>; <b class="b3">ὄ. κακῶν . . γήραος</b>, i.e. [[wrinkled]] [[old age]], <span class="bibl">Archil. 116</span>; <b class="b3">ὄ. ὀδόντων</b> [[row]] of [[teeth]], <span class="title">APl.</span>4.265, etc.</span>