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ὄψις, ἡ,
genitive εως, Ionic dialect ιος, (ὄπωπα):
__I objective, aspect, appearance of a person or thing, πατρὸς φίλου ὄψιν ἀτυχθείς [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.468; εἰσορόων ὄ. τ᾽ ἀγαθὴν καὶ μῦθον ἀκούων 24.632, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1412 (_anapaest meter_); δῶρον, οὐ σπουδαῖον εἰς ὄ. [prev. author] “OC” 577 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; πλείω τὴν ὄ. παρείχετο made the appearance greater, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.46; ἀξιόλογον ὄ. παρέχεται τὸ δένδρος “PCair.Zen.” 157.4 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὥστε ὄ. καλὴν φαίνεσθαι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.9.9; εἰκάζεσθαι ἀπὸ τῆς φανερᾶς ὄ. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.10; τὴν ὄ. τοῦ σώματος προορᾶν [prev. author] 7.44 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: the accusative is used absolutely, in appearance, τῷ ὄψιν ἐειδόμενος [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 10.15; στρογγύλος τὴν ὄ. 5th c.BC: Hermippus Comicus 4; ἀστειότατον τὴν ὄ. 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 59 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; καλός τε κἀγαθὸς τὴν ὄ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Parmenides” 127b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀπὸ τῆς ὄ. Ἑλληνικός to judge from his looks, [[ 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 33.2; so ἐκ τῆς ὄ. “POxy.” 37 ii 3 (1st c.AD). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__I.b countenance, face, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 905, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 240d, 254b, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; διοίδησις ὅλης ὄ. [[ 1st c.AD: Herodotus Medicus in “Rh.Mus.” 58.83, compare 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.44, 3rd c.AD: Philumenus Medicus cited in 6th c.AD: Aëtius Medicus 9.7 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; οὐκ ἄξιον ἀπ᾽ ὄψεως οὔτε φιλεῖν οὔτε μισεῖν οὐδένα by the face or look merely, [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 16.19 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀδήλως τῇ ὄ. πλασάμενος so that nothing could be learnt from his countenance, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.58; τίνι δεδούλωταί ποτ; ὄψει 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 541.2: _plural_, 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 98.6, 4th c.BC: Anaxandrides Comicus 41.38. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
Close Browse lexicon entries __I.c visual impression or image of an object, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 193c. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.2 thing seen, sight, φοβερὰν ὄ. προσιδέσθαι [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 48 (_anapaest meter_), compare “Supp.” 567 (Lyric poetry); ὁρῶ Πυλάδην.., ἡδεῖαν ὄ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 727, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 887d, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄλλην ὄ. οἰκοδομημάτων other architectural sights, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.136 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ δὲ χρήματα.. ἔστιν ὄψις mere outside show, [[ 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 33.2; πολλὴν ὄ. παρασχόντα ἔπειτα μηδὲν ὠφελῆσαι 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 44 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of scenic representations, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1453b1, +others; ὁ τῆς ὄ. κόσμος [prev. work] 1449b33: _plural_, [prev. work] 1462a16. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__I.3 vision, apparition, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.39, etc.; ὄ. ἐν τῷ ὕπνῳ [prev. author] 3.30, +others; ὄ. ἐνυπνίου [prev. author] 8.54; ὄ. ὀνείρου [prev. author] 1.38; ὄ. ἔννυχοι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 645, compare “Ag.” 425 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 413, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 72 (Lyric poetry), “IG” 42(1).121.11 (Epid., 4th c.BC), etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II subjective, power of sight or seeing, vision, ὄψει τινὰ ἰδεῖν, ἐσιδεῖν, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.205, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 25.94, compare 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 55, 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 11, 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 4.10, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.75, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τῆς ἐμῆς ὄ. [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.99, 147; τῆς ὄ. στερηθῆναι [prev. author] 9.93, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐ τὸ δρασθὲν πιστότερον ὄψει λαβόντες ἢ τὸ ἀκουσθέν [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.38; οὐ καθορωμένους τῇ ὄ. νυκτὸς οὔσης [prev. work] 112. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.b act of seeing or looking, ἡ εἰς τὸ ἄνω ὄ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 396b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; sense of sight, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Anima” 428a6, “Mete.” 369b9 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὰ διὰ τῆς ὄ., of pleasures, [[ [prev. author] “EN” 1118a3, etc. ] Refs]
__II.c plural, organs of sight, eyes, ὄψεις μαρᾶναι to quench the orbs of sight, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1328, compare “Ant.” 52, 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 26; τὸ κάλλος πάντων εἷλκε τὰς ὄ. ἐπ᾽ αὐτόν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 1.9 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀσθενῖ (={-εῖ}) τὰς ὄ. [[ “POxy.” 911.6 (3rd c.AD): so in _sing._, ἐστερήθη τῆς μιᾶς ὄ. 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.79.12 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]: singular in collective sense, the eyes, [ἰχθῦς] λευκὴν ἔχοντες τὴν ὄ. [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 602a11, compare “PA” 656b29. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II.d in Medicine texts, iris of the eye, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προρρητικόν” 2.19 ] Refs 5th c.BC+] (but eye-ball or eye, [[ [prev. author] “Prog.” 7 (_plural_))] Refs]; also, pupil, [[ 2nd c.AD: Rufus Medicus “περὶ ὀνομασίας” 23. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II.e of the visual rays which were supposed to proceed from the eyes, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 45c, 46b, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 343a13, 370a19: in other places 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus ] Refs 5th c.BC+] controverted this Empedoclean theory, [[ “Sens.” 437b14. ] Refs]
__II.2 view, sight, ἀπικνέεσθαι ἐς ὄψιν τινί come into one's sight, i.e. presence, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.136 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἰς ὄψιν τινὸς or τινὶ ἥκειν, μολεῖν, ἐλθεῖν, περᾶν, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 215, “Pers.” 183, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 173 (_anapaest meter_), “Or.” 513 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; καλέσαι τινὰ ἐς ὄ. [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.106 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀποφαίνειν τί τινι ἐς ὄ. [[ [prev. author] 4.81; λυπηρὰς τῇ ὄ. ἀχθηδόνας προστιθέμενοι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.37; ἐν ὄ. τοῦ δήμου 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Tiberius Gracchus” 12 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κατ᾽ ὄψιν in person, ὡς ἐνετειλάμην σοι κατ᾽ ὄ. as I enjoined you when with you, [[ POxy. 1154.4 (1st c.AD), compare 117.3 (2nd-3rd c.AD), etc. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II.2.b dignity, position, κατὰ τὴν ἐμὴν ὄ. καὶ ὑπόλημψιν [[ “PLond.” 1.77.59 (6th c.AD)] Refs 6th c.AD+]; ἡ τῶν γονέων ἡμῶν προτεραία ὄ. [[ “PMasp.” 2 iii6 (6th c.AD). ] Refs 6th c.AD+]
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