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οὔλιος , α, ον, (οὖλος C)
A.= ὀλοός, baleful, deadly, οὔ. ἀστήρ, of the dog-star, Il.11.62; epith. of Ares, Hes.Sc.192,441, Pi.O.9.76; αἰχμαί, θρῆνος, ib.13.23, P.12.8: once in Trag., “οὔ. πάθος” S.Aj.932 (lyr.).
II. as epith. of Apollo and Artemis, Pherecyd.149 J., cf. “Ἀπόλλων Ὄλιος” IG12(1).834.3 and 845.10 (Lindos), SIG765.17 (ibid., i B. C.); Ἀπόλλων Οὔλιος also at Miletus and Delos acc. to Str.14.1.6, who derives theepith. from οὔλειν, Apollo and Artemis being healers: more prob. it is only a special application of sense 1.
III. = οὖλος (B), woolly, χλαμύς only in B.17.53.
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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