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ὄνειαρ , α^τος, τό (later perh. ὄνεαρ disyll., v. infr. 1.4), Ep. word,
A.that which brings profit, advantage, Il.22.486, Hes.Op.822, etc. ; μέγα στιβάδεσσιν ὄνειαρ boon for leafy couches, Theoc.13.34.
2. means of strengthening, refreshment, Od.4.444, 15.78, Hes.Op.41.
3. in pl. ὀνεία^τα, food, victuals, freq. in Hom. (esp. Od.) in the line “οἱ δ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ὀνείαθ᾽ ἑτοῖμα προκείμενα χεῖρας ἴαλλον” Od.1.149. al. ; also of rich presents, “τοσσάδ᾽ ὀνείατ᾽ ἄγων” Il.24.367.
4. of persons, πᾶσιν ὄ., of Hector, 22.433 ; “πῆμα κακὸς γείτων, ὅσσον τ᾽ ἀγαθὸς μέγ᾽ ὄ.” Hes. Op.346 ; ἀθανάτοις θνητοῖσί τ᾽ ὄνεα<*>ρ καὶ χάρμα τέτυκται, of Demeter, h.Cer.269 (cj. Ilgen, for ὄνειαρ).
II. for ὄναρ (v. “ὄναρ” 1.1 fin., ὄνειρος I), dream, “τοὐμὸν ὄ. ἐμοί” Call.Epigr.49, cf. AP7.42. (The true spelling in early Ion. is prob. ὄνηαρ, which is called Aeol. by Choerob. in An.Ox.2.245 : hence later Ion. ὀνέα_ρ : prob. from Ο᾿να_ϝαρ, cf. ὀνίνημι.）
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (12):
    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 346
    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 41
    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 822
    • Homer, Iliad, 22.486
    • Homer, Iliad, 24.367
    • Homer, Odyssey, 15.78
    • Homer, Odyssey, 1.149
    • Homer, Odyssey, 4.444
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 2 to Demeter, 269
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 2 to Demeter, 1.1
    • Homer, Iliad, 22.433
    • Callimachus, Epigrams, 49
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