ὄφις: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ, gen. [[ὄφεως]], poet. also <span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> ὄφεος <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Supp.</span>703</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ba.</span>1026</span>, <span class="bibl">1331</span>; Dor. and Ion. ὄφιος <span class="bibl">Hes. <span class="title">Th.</span>322</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.9.81</span>, <span class="bibl">Arat.82</span>:—[[serpent]], αἰόλος <span class="bibl">Il.12.208</span>; γλαυκῶπα ποικιλόνωτον ὄφιν <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>4.249</span>, cf.<span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ch.</span>544</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ph.</span>1328</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.8.41</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phd.</span>112d</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">R.</span>358b</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">ὁ ψυχρὸς ὄ</b>. <span class="bibl">Theoc.15.58</span>; equiv. to [[δράκων]] in <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Th.</span>322</span>, <span class="bibl">825</span>: metaph., <b class="b3">πτηνὸν ἀργηστὴν ὄφιν</b>, of an arrow, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Eu.</span>181</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> like [[δράκων]], <b class="b2">a serpent-like bracelet</b>, <span class="bibl">Men.387</span>, Nicostr. Com.<span class="bibl">33</span>, <span class="bibl">Philostr.<span class="title">Ep.</span>22</span>; [[ὄφεις]] is Att. for [[ψέλλια]] acc. to <span class="bibl">Moer. p.288</span> P. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b3">τρικάρηνος ὄ. ὁ χάλκεος</b> dedicated at Delphi ( = <span class="title">SIG</span> 31), <span class="bibl">Hdt.9.81</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> the constellation <span class="title">Serpens</span>, <span class="bibl">Arat.82</span>, Eudox. ap.<span class="bibl">Hipparch.1.2.18</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">IV</span> [[a creeping plant]], <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Mul.</span>2.114</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">V</span> a kind of [[fish]], v. [[ὀφίδιον]] <span class="bibl">11</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">VI</span> [[guinea-worm]] (elsewh. [[δρακόντιον]]), Ruf.<span class="title">Interrog.</span>65. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">VII</span> = [[ὀφίασις]] I, <span class="bibl">Cels.6.4</span>, <span class="bibl">Poll.4.192</span>. [The first syll. is sts. made long in the older Poets, αἰόλον ὄφιν <span class="bibl">Il.12.208</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Hippon.49.6</span>; so ὀφιοέσσης <span class="bibl">Antim.78</span>. It was then pronounced (and perh. written) <b class="b3">ὄπφις, ὀπφιοέσσης</b>, v. Eust.Il. l.c.—The ult. of the nom. and acc. <b class="b3">ὄφις, ὄφιν</b> is commonly long, as in <span class="bibl">Hes. <span class="title">Th.</span>334</span>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ch.</span>928</span>, <span class="bibl">A.R.2.1269</span>, <span class="bibl">Mosch.4.22</span>; short only in later Poets, as <span class="bibl">A.R.4.128</span>, <span class="bibl">1398</span>, <span class="bibl">Arat.578</span>.]</span>