A.unripe grape (cf. Dsc.5.5), “πάροιθε δέ τ᾽ ὄμφακές εἰσιν ἄνθος ἀφιεῖσαι” Od.7.125 ; “ὅτ᾽ ὄ. αἰόλλονται” Hes.Sc.399 : sg. as collective, “ὅταν δὲ τεύχῃ Ζεὺς ἀπ᾽ ὄμφακος πικρᾶς οἶνον” A.Ag.970 ; so freq. in Hp., Ulc.12,Acut.(Sp.) 65, al., cf. Plu.2.648f ; “εἶτ᾽ ἦμαρ αὔξει μέσσον ὄμφακος τύπον” S.Fr. 255.5 ; also of other fruits, as olives, Poll.5.67.
II. metaph., young girl not yet ripe for marriage, AP5.19 (Honest.), 12.205 (Strat.), JRS18.30 (Tembris) ; τί τρυγᾷς ὄμφακας ἡλικίης ; (epitaph of a boy, addressed to Pluto) IG14.769 (Naples).
2. the unripe hard breasts of a young girl, “ὄμφακα μαζοῦ” Tryph.34 ; but ὄμφακι μαζῷ, as Adj., Nonn.D.1.71,48.957 ; cf. “ὀμφάκιον” 11.
3. ὄμφακας βλέπειν look sour grapes, look sour (cf. βλέπω II), Com.Adesp.877 : hence τὰς ὀφρῦς σχάσασθε καὶ τὰς ὄ. your scornful brows and sourgrape looks, Pl.Com.32 ; cf. “ὀμφακίας” 11.
b. prov., “ὑγιέστερος ὄμφακος” Com.Adesp.910.