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