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ὄρος

ὄρος, ὄρος, mountain, hill

ὄρος, εος, τό: gen. pl. ὀρέων (the form proper to Ion. and other dialects) is required by the metre in E. Ba. 719 (iamb.) and freq. in lyr. verse, as S. OT 1106, and is alone used in LXX, Ge. 8.5, al., cf. IG 7.2225.18 (ii B. C.), Apoc. 6.15; but ὀρῶν (the Att. form) is required in A. Pr. 719, 811, Fr. 342, E. Ba. 791, and occurs in Th. 3.24, Pl. Criti. 111c, SIG 888.120 (Scaptopara, iii A. D.), etc.: the Ep. and Lyr.forms οὔρεος, οὔρεϊ, οὔρεα, οὔρεσι prob. have οὐρ- metri gr. for ὀρ- (so ὤρεα, ὤρεος metri gr. in Dor., Theoc. 1.77, 115, 4.35, Hymn.Is. 162): the Ion. form is ὀρ-, Od. 9.21, al., Anacr. 2.5, v. ὄρειος (οὔρεσιν is an Epicism in Semon. 14.1, cf. οὔρη at end of a hexam., IG 12(8).445.6 (Thasos)); ὄρος is found in codd. of Hdt. 1.43, 2.8, 12, 7.176 and should perh. be restd. elsewh.:—
  • mountain, hill, ὄρεος κορυφῇσι Il. 3.10, al.; οὔρεος ἐν βήσσῃσιν 11.87; ἐν ὄρεσσι 1.235, al.; ἐν οὔρεσιν 24.614, al.; τρέμε δʼ οὔρεα μακρά 13.18, etc.; Γαῖα . . γείνατο δʼ Οὔρεα μακρά, θεῶν χαρίεντας ἐναύλους Hes. Th. 129.
      • 2 canton, parish, ὄ. Ἀργειατᾶν, ὄ. Ὀγχνιάἱον, etc., Mnemos. 42.332 (Argos, iv B.C.).
      • 3 in Egypt, desert, PTeb. 383.61 (i A. D.); as place of burial, POxy. 274.27 (i A. D.), PRyl. 153.5 (ii A. D.), PGrenf. 2.77.22 (iii/iv A. D.).
      • 4 part of the foot, = τὸ ἄνω πρὸ τῶν δακτύλων, Poll. 2.197.
      • 5 = ἀμίς, Sch. Ar. Ach. 82.

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