A.cavern, grotto, Od.5.57, etc.; “ὑπὸ ς. ἤλασε μῆλα” Il.4.279; [“Κύκλωπες] οἴκεον ἐν σπήεσσι” Od.9.400; ἐν σπέσσι γλαφυροῖσι ib.114; “νῆα . . ὡρμίσαμεν κοῖλον ς. εἰσερύσαντες” 12.317.—Hom. uses only the following forms: nom.and acc. sg. σπέος, Il.13.32, ll.cc.; irreg. dat. “σπῆϊ” 18.402, Od.2.20,al., cf. Hes.Th.297 (σπέϊ in Opp.C.4.246): of the Ep. form σπεῖος, acc. sg. only in Od.5.194; gen. σπείους only in Od.（5.68, al.): of the pl., only dat. σπέσσι and σπήεσσι, only in Od. (1.15, al., 9.400, al.); gen. “σπείων” h.Ven.263; irreg. dat. pl. σπεάτεσσι, as if from σπέας, in Xenoph.37.
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σπέος , Ep. σπεῖος , τό, Ep.Noun (also in Inscr.Cypr.98 H.),
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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