sheep,
ὄϊς( Il. 24.125 ),ὁandἡ, gen.
A.
ὄϊος
Od. 4.764
,al.; Ion. dat.ὀί̈[̆̄] Ar. Pax 929 ; acc. ὄϊν
Il. 24.621
, al. (onοἴιδα
v. οἶις ) : pl.ὄϊες ̄̄̆
Od. 9.425 (οἴιεςcod. Harl.),̆̄̄
Il. 4.433 , al., οἴιες
Call. Ap. 53
; gen. ὀί̈ων
Od. 9.167
, al.; dat. ὀί̈εσσι
Il. 5.137
,al., Theoc. 5.130 , ὄεσσι
Il. 6.25
, al. ; alsoὄϝεσι,in corrupt formὄρεσι(: προβάτοις), Hsch. ; acc. pl.ὄϊς[ῑ]
Il. 11.245 ,al., Hes. Op. 775 (always before a consonant); Dor.
ὄῐς
Theoc. 8.45
, both fromὄϝινς,which is found at Argos, SIG 56.30
(v B.C.); nom. and acc. pl. further contr. toοἶς,Orac. ap. D. 21.53 ; of these contr. forms Hom. has only gen. sg. οἰός
Il. 12.451
,al., gen. pl. οἰῶν
11.696
, al.; cf. dat. pl. οἴεσιν
Od. 15.386
; acc. sg. οἶν
Theoc. 5.99
: in Att.
οἰ-is always contracted,οἶςHdn.Gr. 1.400 , οἶν
E. El. 513
, οἰός
S. OC 475
, al., οἰί
Arist. GA 769b20
, but ὀί̈
Id. HA 522b33
; pl. οἶες
X. Mem. 3.2.1
, al., IG 22.1358.36 ; acc. οἶς
X. Cyr. 5.2.5
, HG 6.4.29 , An. 6.2.3 ; gen. οἰῶν
Arist. HA 596a31
, al.; dat.οἰσίνprob. in IG 12.825.2 ,οἰσίprob. in SIG 624.40
(ii B.C.): Cret. forms, nom. sg.οις, acc.οιν, GDI 4963 , butοἶις, οἶιν,ib. 4990 :—sheep,
Hom. , Hes. , etc. (v. supr.) (but rare in Prose,πρόβατονbeing preferred), both of theramand theewe,though sts. a word is added to mark gender, ὄϊν ἀρνειὸν ῥέζειν θῆλύν τε μέλαιναν
Od. 10.527
, cf. 9.425 ; ὄϊν . . θῆλυν, ὑπόρρηνον
Il. 10.215
. [Alwaysῐ, exc. in dat. sg.ὀῑ,acc. pl.ὀῑς: gen. sg.οἰόςexceptionally̆̄(before a consonant) in Mnesim. 4.47 : inοἴιες οἰ-may stand metri gr. forὀ-(cf.πνοιή, ἠγνοίησε,etc.), but for Cret.οἶις, οἶινsome other expl. is needed.] (Arg.ὄϝις SIGl.c., cf. Skt.avis,Lat.ovis,Engl.ewe,etc.)
