A.of ὀπώρα or late summer, ἀστέρ᾽ ὀπωρινῷ ἐναλίγκιον, i. e. Sirius, the star whose rising marked the beginning of that season (v. ὀπώρα), Il.5.5 ; “ἦμαρ” 16.385 ; “βορέης” 21.346, Od.5.328; “ὄμβρος” Hes.Op.674, 677 ; “ὄρχατοι” E. Fr.896 ; “δέλφαξ” Ar.Fr.506.4 ; “πυλαία” SIG239C31, al. (Delph., iv B. C.). [In Hom. the last syll. is always long (by position in Il.21.346), and the penult. is long also, metri gr.: when the ult. is short, the penult. also is short, as in Hes.Op.674 ; in Att. ι^ always ; cf. μετοπωρινός.]
ὀπωρ-ινός , ή, όν,
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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