STEP Liddell–Scott–Jones: ὀλίγος

ὀλίγος [ῐ], η, ον,

later ὀλίος (which see), of Size, little, small, frequently in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, rarer later, opposed to μέγας, σάκος 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.376; κῦμα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.94, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὀλίγῃ ὀπί with small, low voice, [[ 14.492 ] Refs]; of stature,[[ 9.515; ὀ. κῶρος 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 1.47; οὐκ ὀλίγης αἷμα βοὸς κέχυται Callias Epigrammaticus “Aet.Oxy.” 2080.85 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; of Space, ὀ. χῶρος [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.161, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of Time, χρόνος [[ 19.157, 23.418, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 7.38, etc.; ἐν βραχεῖ κὠλίγῳ χρόνῳ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 646 (cf. IV. 3). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]

__2 sometimes in a sense between that of Size and Quantity, ὀ. δόσις [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.208; οὖρα ὀλίγα ] Refs 8th c.BC+]not copious, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 1.2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὑποστάσιες ὀλίγαι slight sediments, [[[prev. work] 17 ] Refs]; ὀ. καὶ οὐδέν little or nothing, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 23a; οὐδὲν ἢ ὀ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 651b17. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]

__3 of Degree, ὀ. καὶ μέγας of low and high degree, [[ 7th c.BC: Callinus Epicus 1.17. ] Refs 7th c.BC+]

__4 weak, ἀθυμοτέρη καὶ ὀλιγωτέρη φύσις [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ παρθενίων” 1. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]

__II of Number, few, or of Quantity, little, not in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+], frequently in Attic dialect, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1417, “Eq.” 717, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+], but rare in Trag., as ὀλίγα κακά [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 330.—The governing body in Oligarchies and the oligarchical party in Democracies was called οἱ ὀ., 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.38, 8.9, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ ὑπὸ τῶν ὀ. δυναστεία, αἱ διὰ τῶν ὀ. δυναστεῖαι, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 291d, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 60.25; ἑνὸς καὶ πλήθους τὸ ὀ. μέσον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 303a. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]