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Included with: ὀξύς, εῖα, ύ,
Ionic dialect feminine ὀξέα [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.23, +others, variant in 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 1.64, +others (in codices frequently ὀξέη, and so 2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 73.1 for the sake of meter): ὀξεῖα, poetry for _neuter_ _plural_ ὀξέα, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 348 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—sharp, keen, whether of a point or an edge, in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus and 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] mostly of weapons or anything made of metal, ἄκων [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.335, +others; ἄορ 21.173, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 457; βέλος 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.185, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; also of non-metallic substances, λᾶας [[ 16.739; μοχλός 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.382; σκόλοπες 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.56, 64 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὀξεῖα κορυφή, of a mountain-peak, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.74; so πάγοι ὀξέες 5.411 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; λίθος ὀξὺς πεποιημένος sharpened so as to serve as a knife, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.69, compare 3.8 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κυρβασίας ἐς ὀξὺ ἀπηγμένας brought to a point, [[ [prev. author] 7.64; ὄρεα ἐς ὀ. τὰς κορυφὰς ἀ. [prev. author] 2.28 ] Refs]; τὸ ὀ. the apex of a triangle, [[[prev. work] 16 ] Refs]; of the heart, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Respiratione” 478b5; τὸ ὀ. τοῦ ᾠοῦ [prev. author] “GA” 752b8 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ὀ. γωνία an acute angle, [[ [prev. author] “Top.” 107a16, +others, 3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra 1 “Def.” 12, 3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “περὶ ἑλίκων” 16; Χρόνος ὀξὺς ὀδόντας 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 176 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἡ ὀξεῖα, name of a surgical instrument, [[ “Hermes” 38.282, 1st-2nd c.AD: Heliodorus Medicus cited in 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 44.23.59 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; but also, a pointed splinter of bone, [[[prev. work] 46.20.5. ] Refs]
Close Browse lexicon entries __II in reference to the senses,
__II.1 of feeling, sharp, keen, ὀδύναι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.268 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὀ. ἠέλιος the piercing sun, [[ “hymnus ad Apollinem” 374 ] Refs]; ὀξειᾶν ἀκτίνων πατήρ, i.e. the Sun, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.70; Σείριος ὀξὺς ἐλλάμπων 7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 61; πῦρ ὀ. 4th c.BC: Anaxippus Comicus 1.12; so χιὼν ὀξεῖα 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.20 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]; so also of grief and the like, ἄχος [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.125; μελεδῶναι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.517 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: and generally, sharp, severe, μάχη ὀξέα.. γίνεται keenly contested, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.23; ὀ. πυρετός 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 16 (_superlative_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; [ἡ νόσος] ὀξεῖα φοιτᾷ καὶ ταχεῖ᾽ ἀπέρχεται [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 808 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; νόσοι, μανίαι, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 8.85, “N.” 11.48 (_comparative_),compare 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Acut.” at Title Page, 2nd c.AD: Archigenes Medicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 9.887; πάθαι 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.97; ἐπιμομφά [prev. author] “O.” 10(11).9, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 of the sight, ὀξύτατον ὄμμα [[ [prev. author] “N.” 10.62; ὄψις.. ὀξυτάτη τῶν διὰ τοῦ σώματος.. αἰσθήσεων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 250d: frequently in _neuter_ as ] Refs 5th c.BC+] adverb, ὀξύτατον δέρκεσθαι to be keenest of sight, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.675; ὀξύτατα καθορᾶν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 516c ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; so ὀξὺ νοεῖν notice a thing sharply, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.374; ὀξὺ προϊδεῖν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.393; ὀξύτερον βλέπει 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1048, “Lys.” 1202 (Lyric poetry): proverbial, ὀξύτερον τοῦ Λυγκέως βλέπειν [prev. author] “Pl.” 210, compare 15th c.AD: Macarius Paroemiographus “Prov.” 6.41 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; also ὀξὺ ἄκουσεν heard with sharp ear, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.256, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 927b ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὀξεῖαν ἀκοὴν.. λόγοις διδούς keen attention, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 30. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2.b of things that affect the sight, dazzling, bright, αὐγὴ Ἠελίου [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.372; [Ἠελίου] ὀξύτατον πέλεται φάος εἰσοράασθαι 14.345 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: hence of colours, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 1173 (see. φοινικίς 2); αἱ ὀξεῖαι χροιαί 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physiognomonica” 806b4; πορφύρα 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cat.Mi.” 6, “PHolm.” 20.36; [ἐσθὴς] ὀξυτέρα καὶ τηλαυγεστέρα 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 4.46. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.3 of sound, shrill, piercing, ἀϋτή [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.313; ὀξὺ βοήσας 17.89; ὀξὺ δὲ κωκύσασα 18.71; ὀξὺ λεληκώς 22.141; ὀξέα κεκληγώς 17.88, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of whinnying horses, ὀξεῖα χρέμισαν [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 348 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of young pigs, ὀξὺ κεκράγατε [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 804 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the scream of birds of prey, ὀξέα κλάζων [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 112 (_anapaest meter_) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of metals, ἰάχεσκε σάκος ὀξέα καὶ λιγέως [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 233 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; also of the wail of the nightingale (compare ὀξύφωνος), ὄρνιθος ὀ. φθόγγον [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 424 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; so ἐπηλάλαξαν τὸν ὀ. νόμον shrieked their shrill song, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 952 (Lyric poetry) ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ὀξὺ μέλος, of the grasshopper, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1095 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.3.b of musical tones, in a technical sense, high-pitched, opposed to βαρύς, φθόγγοι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 80a, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 6.20; ὀξυτάτη χορδή 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 268d; φωνὴ ὀξεῖα, βαρεῖα, μέση 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1403b29; τῷ ὀξεῖ ἐν φωνῇ μὲν ἐναντίον τὸ βαρύ, ἐν ὄγκῳ δὲ τὸ ἀμβλύ [prev. author] “Top.” 106a13. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.3.c in Music, δι᾽ ὀξειῶν (Doric dialect -ᾶν) interval of a fifth, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Philolaus Philosophus 6, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 920a24. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.3.d ἡ ὀξεῖα (i.e. προσῳδία) the acute accent, [[ 2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus 630.1, 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Pronominibus;” 35.10, +others] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; τὸν τόνον φυλάσσειν ὀ.[[ [prev. work] 60.1; ὀ. συλλαβή 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 399b; ὀ. στοιχεῖον 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 1.113. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.4 of taste, sharp, pungent, acid, φακῆ [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.2.31; ὄξος 4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus 18.1; οἶνος 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 141.12; ἐξ ὀξέος καὶ ἁλμυροῦ ξυνθεὶς ζύμωμα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 74c. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.5 of smell, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Anima” 421a30; ὀξύτατον ὄζειν τινός 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 193. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III metaphorically, of the inner sense, sharp, keen, hasty, especially quick to anger, passionate, epithet of Ares, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.440, +others; μένος ὀξύ “Hymni Homerici” 8.14; καρδίη ὀξυτέρη 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 366; θυμὸς ὀ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1193; νέος καὶ ὀ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 463e; οἱ ἀκρόχολοι ὀξεῖς 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1126a18: so in ὀξύ-θυμος, -κάρδιος, -χολος. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__III.2 sharp, quick, δεινοὶ καὶ ὀξεῖς [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 39b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with infinitive, ἐπινοῆσαι ὀ. [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.70; γνῶναι.. ὀξύτατοι τὰ ῥηθέντα 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 3.15; also εἰς πάντα τὰ μαθήματα ὀξεῖς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 526b; τὰς ἐνθυμήσεις ὀξύς 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Salt.” 81. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__IV of motion, quick, swift, post-[[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, ὀξυτάτους ἵππους 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.9 (variant{ὠκυτάτους}) ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἱερακίσκος [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1112; ὀξυτέρῳ χαλινῷ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 108 (Lyric poetry) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a report, ὀξεῖα βάξις διῆλθ᾽ Ἀχαιούς [[ [prev. author] “Aj.” 998 ] Refs]; ὀξεῖαν ἐκβάλλει ῥοήν, of a dying man, [[ [prev. author] “Ant.” 1238, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1389 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of a flame, fierce, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 5.9.3; ᾄξας ὀξὺς νότος ὥς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 258 (_anapaest meter_) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ εὔψυχον.. ὀξεῖς ἐνδείκνυνται are quick in displaying, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.126 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to βραδύς, [[ [prev. author] 8.96 ] Refs]; opposed to ῥάθυμος, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Eudemia” 1240a2 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; opposed to ἡσύχιος, [[ [prev. author] “EN” 1116a9; ὀ. παράγγελμα 1st c.AD: Onosander (Onasander) Tacticus 10.2 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; ὀ. καιρός an urgent crisis, [[ [prev. author] 6.1, +others] Refs]; ὁ ὀ. δρόμος the express post, [[ “POxy.” 900.7 (4th c.AD), 2115.6 (4th c.AD) ] Refs 4th c.AD+]; ὀξεῖς οἱ πόδες αὐτῶν ἐκχέαι αἷμα [[ NT.Rom.3.15: especially in ] NT] adverb (see. below).
__V regular adverb ὀξέως quickly, soon, βοηθεῖν, μεταχειρίσαι, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.10, 12, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; sharply, ὁρᾶν, αἰσθάνεσθαι, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 567b, “Phdr.” 263c; poetry ὀξείως “epigram Gr.” 986.3 (from Philae)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: comparative ὀξυτέρως [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 3.17.β; ὀξυτέρως ἀποθῄνσκειν [prev. work] 1.2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; but,
__V.2 neuter ὀξύ and plural ὀξέα as adverb, see above [[ 11.2, 3: _comparative_ ὀξύτερον 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.8, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 190a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: superlative ὀξύτατον [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.675, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 741d; or ὀξύτατα [prev. author] “R.” 401e, +others (Cf. ὀξίνα, ὄκρις.) ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
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