οὔριος, α, ον,
also ος, ον [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 355: (οὖρος A)] Refs 5th c.BC+]:— with a fair wind, οὔ. πλοῦς a prosperous voyage,[[ [prev. work] 780, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1596; οὔ. δρόμος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 889 (Lyric poetry); πομπή 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 352 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a ship, οὔ. πλάτη [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 355; λαῖφος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 406 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; νεὼς πτερόν[[ [prev. work] 147; ἀφήσω κατὰ κῦμ᾽ ἐμαυτὸν οὔριον 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 433: _neuter_ _plural_ as ] Refs 5th c.BC+] adverb, οὔρια θεῖν to run before the wind, [[ [prev. author] “Lys.” 550; compare below 11.2. ] Refs]
__2 metaphorically, prosperous, successful, πρᾶξις [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 814 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 95; φόνος [prev. author] “Heracl.” 822; βίοτος “Anthologia Graeca” 7.164.10 (Antip. Sid.): _neuter_ _plural_ οὔρια] Refs 5th c.BC+] as adverb, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1588 (codices, but probably οὔριοι). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II prospering, favouring, πνεῦμα, πνοαί,[[ [prev. work] 1663, “Hec.” 900, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.6.37; ἐπὶ τοὺς Αθηναίους οὔριος ἄνεμος 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.53: Comedy texts of bellows, οὐρίᾳ ῥιπίδι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 669 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]. adverb superlative -ώτατα[[ “Stadiasmus [1st c.BC-1st c.AD]” 150, 178. ] Refs]
__II.2 οὐρία (i.e. πνοή), ἡ, ={οὖρος}, a fair wind, [[ 7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus (?) in “PLit.Lond.” 54, etc.] Refs 7th c.BC+]; οὐρίᾳ ἐφέντα (i.e. ἑαυτόν or τὸ πλοῖον) running before the wind, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 338a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐξ οὐρίας διαδραμεῖν, πλεῖν, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Mechanica” 851b6, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.47.2; also, ἐξ οὐρίων δραμοῦσαν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1083; πάντα ἐξ οὐρίων θεῖ 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Epistulae” 178; ἐν οὐρίῳ πλεῖν 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Lex.” 15. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]