A.any loud noise, as the din of battle, “ὄ. ἄπλητος” Hes. Th.709; rattling of chariots, A. Th.151, 204 (both lyr.); crash of thunder, S. OC1479 (lyr.); also of the flute, γλυκὺν αὐλῶν ὄ. Id.Aj.1202 (lyr.): pl., “ὄ. κροτάλων” Antim.Eleg.Fr.17.—The freq. Mss. reading ὀττοβέω, ὄττοβος is disproved by the metre. (Onomatop.)
ὄτοβ-ος , ὁ,
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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