ὄρος, εος, τό:
genitive plural ὀρέων (the form proper to Ionic dialect and other dialects) is required by the metre in [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 719 (iambic) and frequently in Lyric poetry verse, as 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1106 ] Refs 5th c.BC+], and is alone used in [[ LXX, LXX.Gen.8.5, +others, compare “IG” 7.2225.18 (2nd c.BC), NT.Rev.6.15 ] LXX+2nd c.BC+]; but ὀρῶν (the Attic dialect form) is required in [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 719, 811, “fragment” 342, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 791, and occurs in 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.24, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 111c, “SIG” 888.120 (Scaptopara, 3rd c.AD), etc.: the _Epic dialect_ and Lyric poetry forms οὔρεος, οὔρεϊ, οὔρεα, οὔρεσι probably have οὐρ- for the sake of meter for ὀρ- (so ὤρεα, ὤρεος] Refs 5th c.BC+] for the sake of meter| in Doric dialect, [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 1.77, 115, 4.35, “Hymnus ad Isim” 162): the _Ionic dialect_ form is ὀρ-, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.21, +others, 6th c.BC: Anacreon Lyricus 2.5 ] Refs 8th c.BC+], see at {ὄρειος} (οὔρεσιν is an Epicism in [[ 7th-6th c.BC(?): Semonides Iambographus 14.1, compare οὔρη] Refs 7th c.BC+] at end of a hexameter, [[ “IG” 12(8).445.6 (from Thasos))] Refs]; ὄρος is found in codices of [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.43, 2.8, 12, 7.176 ] Refs 5th c.BC+] and should perhaps be restored elsewhere:—mountain, hill, ὄρεος κορυφῇσι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.10, +others; οὔρεος ἐν βήσσῃσιν 11.87; ἐν ὄρεσσι 1.235, +others; ἐν οὔρεσιν 24.614, +others; τρέμε δ᾽ οὔρεα μακρά 13.18, etc.; Γαῖα.. γείνατο δ᾽ Οὔρεα μακρά, θεῶν χαρίεντας ἐναύλους 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 129. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 canton, parish, ὄ. Ἀργειατᾶν, ὄ. Ὀγχνιάἱον, etc., [[ “Mnemos.” 42.332 (Argos, 4th c.BC). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]