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ὀργή , ἡ,
A.natural impulse or propensity (v. ὀργάω II): hence, temperament, disposition, mood, “κηφήνεσσι κοθούροις εἴκελος ὀργήν” Hes.Op. 304, cf. Thgn.98,214,964, etc. ; “ὀργὴν ἄλλοτ᾽ ἀλλοίην ἔχει” Semon.7.11 ; so μείλιχος, γλυκεῖα ὀργά, Pi.P.9.43,I.2.35 ; “εὐανθεῖ ἐν ὀργᾷ παρμένων” Id.P.1.89 ; “ὀργῆς τραχύτης” A.Pr.80 ; ὠμή, ἀτέραμνος ὀργή, Id.Supp.187, Pr.192, etc. ; ὀργῆς νοσούσης εἰσὶν ἰατροὶ λόγοι of 'a mind diseased', ib.380: so in pl., h.Cer.205, Pi.I.5(4).34 ; “ὀργαῖς ἀλωπέκων ἴκελοι” Id.P.2.77 ; “κνωδάλων ἔχοντες ὀργάς” A.Supp.763 ; ἀστυνόμοι ὀργαί social dispositions, S.Ant.356 (lyr., cf. “σύντροφος” 3); “ὀργαὶ ἤπιοι” E.Tr.53 : also in Prose, “διεπειρᾶτο αὐτῶν τῆς τε ἀνδραγαθίης καὶ τῆς ὀργῆς” Hdt.6.128 ; “οὐ τῇ αὐτῇ ὀ. ἀναπειθομένους τε πολεμεῖν καὶ ἐν τῷ ἔργῳ πράσσοντας” Th.1.140 ; τῇ ὀ . . . χαλεπῇ ἐχρῆτο ib.130 ; ἐπιφέρειν ὀργάς τινι suit one's moods to another, Id.8.83, cf. Cratin.230 ; “ὁ πόλεμος πρὸς τὰ παρόντα τὰς ὀ. τῶν πολλῶν ὁμοιοῖ” Th.3.82 ; “τὴν τῶν πολλῶν . . συνιόντων ὀ . . . σοφίαν ἡγούμενος” Pl.R.493d.
II. anger, wrath, ὀργῇ χρῆσθαι to be in a passion, Hdt.6.85, S.OT1241; “ὀργὴν ποιήσασθαι” Hdt.3.25 ; “ὀργὴν ποιεῖσθαι εἰ . . ” Th.4.122 ; “ὀργῇ χάριν δοῦναι” S.OC855 ; ὀργῇ εἶξαι, χαρίζεσθαι, E.Hel.80, Fr.31 ; “ὀργὴν ἔχειν τινί” Ar.Pax659 (but ὀ. ἔχει involves anger, D.10.44); “δι᾽ ὀργῆς ἔχειν τινά” Th.5.46 ; ἐν ὀργῇ ἔχειν, ποιεῖσθαί τινα, Id.2.65, D.1.16 ; “οὐ τίθεται ταῦτα παρ᾽ ὑμῖν εἰς . . ἣν προσῆκεν ὀ.” Id.18.138 ; “εἰς ὀργὴν πεσεῖν” E.Or.696, etc. ; “ὀργῇ περιπεπτωκέναι” D.Ep.2.14; ἀνιέναι τῆς ὀργῆς, ὀργὴν χαλᾶν, remit one's anger, be pacified, Ar.Ra.700, V.727; “ὀ. κατέχειν” Philem.185 ; “ὀργῆς κρατεῖν” Men.574 ; ὀ. ἐμποιεῖν τινι make one angry, Pl.Lg.793e ; ὀργῆς τυγχάνειν to be visited with anger, D. 21.175, etc.; ὀργὴν ἄκρος quick to anger, passionate, Hdt.1.73: in pl., “ὀργὰς ἀφιέναι” A.Pr.317; “φαίνειν” Id.Ch.326 (lyr.), al.
2. Adverbial usages, “ὀργῇ” in anger. in a passion, Hdt.1.61,114, S.OT405, etc. ; “ὀργᾷ περιόργῳ” A.Ag.216(lyr.); “δι᾽ ὀργῆς” S.OT807, Th.2.11 ; “δι᾽ ὀργάν” A.Eu.981 (lyr.) ; “ἐξ ὀργῆς” S.Ant.766 ; “κατ᾽ ὀργήν” Id.Tr.933, etc.; “μετ᾽ ὀργῆς” Isoc.2.23, Pl.Ap.34d ; “μετὰ τῆς ὀ.” D.21.76 ; “πρὸς ὀργήν” S. El.369, Ar.Ra.844, Th.2.65 ; ὀργῆς χάριν, ὀ. ὕπο, E.Andr.688, IA 335.
3. c. gen., Πανὸς ὀργαί visitations of Pan's wrath, Id.Med. 1172 ; but
b. c. gen. objecti, ὀργή τινος anger at or because of a thing, S.Ph.1309 (cj.), Lys.12.20 ; “ὀ. τῆς προδοσίας εἶχε τοὺς Ἀθηναίους” Plu.Them.9 ; “ἀπύρων ἱερῶν ὀργάς” A.Ag.71 (anap.).
4. v. ὀργάς 2.—Not in Hom., who uses θυμός instead ; once in Hes.; freq. in Eleg. and Lyr. and in Ion. and Att. Prose.
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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