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ὄρειος

oreios

of, from the mountains, mountain-haunting

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Where it lives

Ichneutae 1 · 5.82/10k
Shield of Heracles 1 · 3.09/10k
Birds 3 · 2.82/10k
Hecuba 2 · 2.79/10k
Trachiniae 2 · 2.75/10k
Electra 2 · 2.65/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 2 · 2.41/10k
Philoctetes 2 · 2.27/10k
Phoenissae 2 · 2.07/10k
Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ὄρειος · oreios — LSJ

of, from the mountains, mountain-haunting

of or from the mountains, mountain-haunting, νύμφην οὐρείην h.Merc. 244, cf. Hes. Fr. 198, Phoronis 2 ; this Ep. form is also used by Trag. and Com. in lyr., S. Ant. 352, E. IT 127, 1126, Ph. 806, Ar. Av. 1098, etc.; but ὄρειος (which is not only Att. but Ion., v. infr.) in trim., as in A. Ag. 497, S. Ph. 937 ; Μήτηρ ὀρεία, of Rhea, Ar. Av. 746 (lyr.); Ion. gen., Μητρὸς Ὀρέης IG 12(7).75 (Amorgos); Ion. acc. pl., πέτρας ὀρείας Hippon. 35.5 : in Prose, ὄρειοί τινες . . νομῆς Pl. Lg. 677b, cf. Cri

In the wild

ὀρείας · oreias Aeschylus, Agamemnon 494–499
ὀρείαις · oreiais Aristophanes, Birds 1 (DIORISIS sentence 579)
ὀρείᾳ · oreiai Aristophanes, Birds 1 (DIORISIS sentence 579)
οὐρείαις · oureiais Aristophanes, Birds 1 (DIORISIS sentence 809)
ὄρειοι · oreioi Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 9303)
οὐρείας · oureias Euripides, Electra 3 (DIORISIS sentence 73)

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Where it came from

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