A.d)Fr.5: pl. ὀστέα, Att. contr. ὀστᾶ, late Ep. ὀστά [α^] Opp.C.1.268, Epigr.in D.L.1.63, Epigr.Gr.517.7 (Edessa); Dor. “ὀστία” Theoc.2.61; but Trag. and Com. use gen. pl. ὀστέων, A.Fr.367 (codd. Poll.), S.Tr.769, Ar.Ach.1226, and it is so written in E.Tr.1177 where metre requires ὀστῶν: and the uncontr. forms generally occur in later Prose, as in Arist. (v. infr.); nom. “ὀστέον” PLit.Lond.167.17(ii/iii A. D.); dat. pl. “ὀστέοις” Diog.Oen.39; Ep. gen. pl. ὀστεόφιν (v. infr.):—bone, freq. in Hom. (Il.4.460, al.) and Hp.(VC1, al.); Hes. only in pl., Th.540, al.; λεύκ᾽ ὀστέα the bleached bones of the dead, Od.1.161, etc.; “σάρκας τε καὶ ὀστέα” 9.293; πολὺς δ᾽ ἀμφ᾽ ὀστεόφιν θίς a huge heap of bones around, 12.45; “ῥινὸν ἀπ᾽ ὀστεόφιν ἐρύσαι” 14.134; “γυμνοῦσι τὰ ὀστέα τῶν κρεῶν” Hdt.4.61; ὀστέων στέγαστρον, of the skin, A.Fr.367; “ἀρχὴ τῶν ὀστῶν ἡ καλουμένη ῥάχις” Arist.PA54b11; esp. of the cranium, Hp.VC2, al., cf. Il. 12.185.
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ὀστέον , τό, Att. contr. ὀστοῦν , poet. ὀστεῦν AP7.480 (Leon.); Aeol. perh. ὄστιον Alc.Oxy.2081(