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οἷον

From LSJ

Νέµουσι δ' οἴκους καὶ τὰ ναυστολούµενα ἔσω δόµων σῴζουσιν, οὐδ' ἐρηµίᾳ γυναικὸς οἶκος εὐπινὴς οὐδ' ὄλβιος → They manage households, and save what is brought by sea within the home, and no house deprived of a woman can be tidy and prosperous

Euripides, Melanippe Captiva, Fragment 6.11

French (Bailly abrégé)

neutre de οἷος.

Russian (Dvoretsky)

οἷον: и οἷα adv.
1 как бы, словно: οἷ. ἐερσήεις Hom. словно омытый росой;
2 так как, в виду того, что: οἷα ἀπροσδοκήτου γενομένου Thuc. так как это произошло неожиданно;
3 около, примерно (οἷ. δέκα σταδίους Thuc.);
4 когда: οἷ. δὴ εὐωχίας οὔσης Plat. во время пиршества.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

οἷον: οὐδ. τοῦ οἷος, ἴδε οἷος VI.

English (Autenrieth)

relative word, (such) as, of what sort (qualis), with antecedent τοῖος expressed or implied. It may be causal in effect, also exclamatory, αἵματος εἶς ἀγαθοῖο, φίλον τέκος, ο ἀγορεύεις, ‘such words you speak,’ = ὅτι τοῖα, Od. 4.611; οἷον δή νυ θεοὺς βροτοὶ αἰτιόωνται, ‘how mortals do, etc.!’ Od. 1.32; foll. by inf., as implying capability, οἷος ἐκεῖνος ἔην βουλευέμεν, ‘such a man was he to plan,’ Od. 14.491; freq. the neut. οἷον, οἷα, as adv., as, how, what (sort), etc. οἷα τε in comparisons, οἷον δή exclamatory and causal, Od. 9.128, Od. 11.429.

Greek Monotonic

οἷον: ουδ. του οἷος, βλ. οἷος V.

Translations

like

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