A.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.IT127,1126, 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” IG12(7).75 (Amorgos); Ion.acc. pl., “πέτρας ὀρείας” Hippon.35.5 : in Prose, “ὄρειοί τινες . . νομῆς” Pl.Lg.677b, cf. Criti.109d ; opp. ἄγροικος, of animals, Arist.HA488b2 ; so “ὀρειότερος” Opp.C.2.22.
ὄρειος , α, ον, also ος, ον Plu.2.965c, Luc.Demon.2, DDeor.20.3 ; Ep. οὔρειος :—
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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