Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ὠκύς

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A.v.l. ὠκύς): fem. pl. “ὠκεῖαι” Od.7.36; Ep. gen. “ὠκειάων” 9.101, Il.4.500, etc.; fem. “ὠκύς” Jo.Gaz.Ecphr.1.240, v.l. (ἐν πολλοῖς Sch.) in Od.12.374:—quick, swift, fleet, “κιχάνει τοι βραδὺς ὠκύν” Od.8.329; mostly of persons, freq. with πόδας added, specially of Achilles, Il.1.58, etc.; also ὠκὺς Ἀχ., without πόδας, 21.211, 22.188; so ὠκέα, of Iris, 2.786, al. (ὦκα δὲ Ἶ. shd. be read for ὠκέα δ᾽ Ἶρις, 23.198); of animals, [“ἴρηξ] ὤκιστος πετεηνῶν” 15.238, cf. 21.253; “ἵπποι” 8.88; “ἔλαφοι” Od.6.104; also of things, esp. of ships, Il.8.197, Od.7.36; of arrows, Il.5.106, 112, al.; “ὠ. πτέρυξ” Pi.P.1.6; “αἰετός” Id.N.3.80; “ἴτ᾽ ἆσσον ὠκεῖς” S.Ant.1215, cf. E.Ba. 452, etc.; “ὠκὺς Ἄρης” Id.Andr.106 (eleg.), cf. Od.8.331 (Sup.); of the sun, “ὠ. ἠέλιος” Mimn.11.5, AP7.466 (Leon.): also “ὠκὺ νόημα” h.Merc.43, cf. Od.7.36; “θνατῶν φρένες ὠκύτεραι” Pi.P.4.139; πρᾶξις, γάμος, ib.9.67,114 (Sup.); “ὠκεῖαι χάριτες γλυκερώτεραι” AP10.30: “τὸ ὠκύ” quickness, sharpness, E.Fr.1032; “ὤκιστος τῇ ἀκοῇ” Ael.NA6.63.

2. of sound, shrill, ἀοιδαί, of the creaking of door-hinges, A.R.4.42.

II. Adv. “-έως” Pi.P.3.58, N.10.64, Parth.2.6, Luc.Salt.19; cf. ὦκα: once neut. ὠκύ as Adv., “ὣς ἔπεσ᾽ Ἕκτορος ὠκὺ χαμαὶ μένος” Il.14.418 (v.l. ὦκα, v. Sch.).

III. degrees of Comparison, regul. Sup. “ὠκύτατος” Od.8.331, Pi.P.9.114: irreg. Sup., “ὤκιστος πετεηνῶν” Il. 15.238, 21.253; “ὤκιστος ὄλεθρος” 22.325; [καιρός] A.Th.65. Adv. “ὤκιστα” Od.22.77, 133, A.R.4.242.—The word is mostly Ep., being used once by A. and once by S., but more freq. in E.; also in late Prose, as Aret.SA2.3 (Comp.), Ael. l.c., Luc.Herm.77.

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 (32):
- Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 65
- Euripides, Andromache, 106
- Euripides, Bacchae, 452
- Hesiod, Theogony, 780
- Homer, Iliad, 15.238
- Homer, Iliad, 23.198
- Homer, Iliad, 2.786
- Homer, Odyssey, 12.374
- Homer, Odyssey, 6.104
- Homer, Odyssey, 7.36
- Homer, Odyssey, 8.329
- Homer, Odyssey, 8.331
- Homeric Hymns, Hymn 4 to Hermes, 43
- Sophocles, Antigone, 1215
- Homer, Iliad, 14.418
- Homer, Iliad, 1.58
- Homer, Iliad, 21.211
- Homer, Iliad, 21.253
- Homer, Iliad, 22.188
- Homer, Iliad, 22.325
- Homer, Iliad, 4.500
- Homer, Iliad, 5.106
- Homer, Iliad, 8.197
- Homer, Iliad, 8.88
- Homer, Odyssey, 22.77
- Homer, Odyssey, 9.101
- Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 4.242
- Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 4.42
- Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 1), 2.3
- Lucian, De saltatione, 19
- Lucian, Hermotimus, 77
- Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 6.63

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