A.“ὄφεος” E.Supp.703, Ba.1026, 1331; Dor. and Ion. “ὄφιος” Hes. Th.322, Hdt.9.81, Arat.82:—serpent, “αἰόλος” Il.12.208; “γλαυκῶπα ποικιλόνωτον ὄφιν” Pi.P.4.249, cf.A.Ch.544, S.Ph.1328, Hdt.8.41, Pl.Phd.112d, R.358b, etc.; ὁ ψυχρὸς ὄ. Theoc.15.58; equiv. to δράκων in Hes.Th.322, 825: metaph., πτηνὸν ἀργηστὴν ὄφιν, of an arrow, A.Eu.181.
II. like δράκων, a serpent-like bracelet, Men.387, Nicostr. Com.33, Philostr.Ep.22; ὄφεις is Att. for ψέλλια acc. to Moer. p.288 P.
IV. a creeping plant, Hp.Mul.2.114.
V. a kind of fish, v. ὀφίδιον 11.
VI. guinea-worm (elsewh. δρακόντιον), Ruf.Interrog.65.
VII. = ὀφίασις I, Cels.6.4, Poll.4.192. [The first syll. is sts. made long in the older Poets, “αἰόλον ὄφιν” Il.12.208, cf. Hippon.49.6; so “ὀφιοέσσης” Antim.78. It was then pronounced (and perh. written) ὄπφις, ὀπφιοέσσης, v. Eust.Il. l.c.—The ult. of the nom. and acc. ὄφις, ὄφιν is commonly long, as in Hes. Th.334, A.Ch.928, A.R.2.1269, Mosch.4.22; short only in later Poets, as A.R.4.128, 1398, Arat.578.]