A.fair wind, “ἡμῖν δ᾽ αὖ κατόπισθε νεὸς . . ἴκμενον οὖ. ἵει πλησίστιον” Od.11.7, cf. 15.292, Il.1.479, etc.; “νηῦς . . , ᾗ λιγὺς οὖ. ἐπιπνείῃσιν ὄπισθεν” Od.4.357; “πέμψω δέ τοι οὖ. ὄπισθεν” 5.167; οὖ. ἀπήμονά τε λιαρόν τε ib.268; “πομπαῖος” Pi.P.1.34; πρύμνηθεν οὖ. E.Tr.20; “πλευστικός” Theoc.13.52; “Διὸς οὖρος” Od.5.176, etc. (rarely of a rough breeze or storm, Il.14.19, A.R.2.900); ἂψ δὲ θεοὶ οὖ. στρέψαν the gods changed the wind again to a fair one, Od.4.520: pl., ib.360; later, ἀποπέμπειν κατ᾽ οὖρον send down (i. e. with) the wind, speed on its way, Orac. ap. Hdt.4.163: so metaph., ἴτω κατ᾽ οὖρον . . πᾶν τὸ Λαΐου γένος let it be swept before the wind to ruin, A.Th.690; “κατ᾽ οὖρον . . αἴρονται φυγήν” Id.Pers.481; ταῦτα μὲν ῥείτω κατ᾽ οὖρον let them drift with wind and stream, S.Tr.468; “εὔθυνε δαίμονος οὖρον” Pi.O.13.28; οὖ. ὀφθαλμῶν ἐμῶν αὐτῇ γένοιτ᾽ ἄπωθεν ἑρπούσῃ let a fair wind be with her as she goes from my sight, i.e. let her go as quick as may be, S. Tr.815; οὖρός [ἐστι] 'tis a fair time, Id.Ph.855 (lyr.); γένοιτό （ἐγένετό codd.) “τις οὖρος ἐκ κακῶν” E.Ion1509(lyr.); οὖ. ἐπέων, ὕμνων, Pi.O. 9.47 (cj. for οἶμον), N.6.29, P.4.3 [υ^].—Rare in Prose, as X.HG2.3.31, Luc.Tox.7.
οὖρος (A), ὁ,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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