ὄφις, ὁ,
genitive ὄφεως, poetry also ὄφεος [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 703, “Ba.” 1026, 1331 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Doric dialect and Ionic dialect ὄφιος [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 322, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.81, 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 82 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—serpent, αἰόλος [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.208; γλαυκῶπα ποικιλόνωτον ὄφιν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.249, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 544, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1328, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.41, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 112d, “R.” 358b, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὁ ψυχρὸς ὄ. [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 15.58 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; equivalent to δράκων in [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 322, 825: _metaphorically_, πτηνὸν ἀργηστὴν ὄφιν, of an arrow, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 181. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II like{δράκων}, a serpent-like bracelet, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 387, 4th c.BC: Nicostratus Philosophus Comedy texts 33, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Epistulae” 22 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ὄφεις is Attic dialect for ψέλλια accusative to [[ 2nd c.AD: Moeris Grammaticus p.288 P. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II.2 τρικάρηνος ὄ. ὁ χάλκεος dedicated at Delphi (= [[ “SIG” 31), 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.81. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III the constellation [[ “Serpens”, 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 82, 4th c.BC: Eudoxus Astronomus cited in 2nd c.BC: Hipparchus Astronomicus 1.2.18. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]