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οἰο-πόλος , ον, (οἶος, πέλομαι) of places,
A.lonely, “ὄρεα” Od.11.574 ; χῶρος, σταθμός, Il.13.473, 19.377 ; of persons, solitary, unaccompanied, “δαίμων” Pi.P.4.28.
II. (οἶς, -πόλος, cf. αἰπόλος) tending sheep, “Ἄρτεμις” Id.Dith.2.19 ; “Ἑρμῆς” h.Merc.314 ; Ἀπόλλων v.l. in Coluth.309 ; θεαί, of the Hesperides, A.R.4.1322, cf. 1413 ; “Πάριν οἰοπόλοισιν ἐφεδριόωντα θοώκοις” Coluth.15. (Signf. 1 is alternatively derived from οἶς, πολέω (as if 'sheep-traversed') in Sch.Il.13.473.)
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 (7):
    • Homer, Iliad, 13.473
    • Homer, Odyssey, 11.574
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 4 to Hermes, 314
    • Homer, Iliad, 19.377
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 4.1322
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 4.1413
    • Colluthus, Rape of Helen, 1
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