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Ὠγύγιος [υ^], α, ον, A. Th.321 (lyr.), but in Trag. mostly ος, ον:—
A.Ogygian, of or from Ogyges, a mythical king of Attica: hence generally, primeval, primal, “Στυγὸς ὕδωρ” Hes.Th.806; “ὠ. πῦρ” Emp. 84.7; “Φλιοῦντος ὑπ᾽ ὠγυγίοις ὄρεσιν” Pi.N.6.44 (ὠγυγίοι᾽ Bgk.); “τὰς ὠ. Θήβας” A.Pers.37 (anap.), cf. S.OC1770 (anap.); “τὰς ὠ. Ἀθάνας” A.Pers.975 (lyr.), cf. Th.l.c.; “γᾶς ὑπο κεύθεσιν ὠ.” Id.Eu.1036 (lyr.); “σὲ . . τόδ᾽ ἐλήλυθεν πᾶν κράτος ὠγύγιον” from earliest ages, S.Ph.142 (lyr.).
2. gigantic, Hld.10.25.
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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