A.care, concern, mostly c. gen. and usu. joined with some word expressing or implying negation, ὤρη γάρ τ᾽ ὀλίγη πέλεται νεικέων little heed is there for strifes, Hes.Op.30; “ἀνδρὸς ἀλωμένου οὐδεμἴ ὤρη” Tyrt.10.11; “μηδεμίαν ὤρην ἔχειν ἁρπασθεισέων [γυναικῶν]” Hdt.1.4, cf. 3.155, Alciphr. 1.27; “ὤρην ἐποιήσαντο οὐδεμίαν” Hdt.9.8, cf. Herod.4.43; “ἤδη γὰρ ἔσχες ἐλπίδ᾽ ἑς ἐμοῦ θεοὺς ὤραν τιν᾽ ἕξειν;” S.OC386; “ἔχω δέ τοι οὐδ᾽ ὅσον ὤραν χείματος” Theoc.9.20; “περὶ τῶν . . πλευρῶν οὐδεμίαν ὤ. ἔχεις” Pl.Com.2; “ὑπὲρ τούτων οὐδ᾽ ὀλίγην ἔθεντο ὤ.” Ael.NA1.59; “τὰ θεῖα ἐν μηδεμιᾷ ὤ. τίθεσθαι” Id.Fr.106; without a neg., εἰ πατρὸς νέμοι τιν᾽ “ὤραν” S.Tr.57; “εἰ δεῖ τῆς τῶν Αἰγυπτίων σοφίας . . ὤραν τίθεσθαι” Ael.NA 12.7. Poet. word, used in Ion. and late Prose. (Hence ὀλιγ-ωρία, cf. Hes.Op.l.c.: prob. fr. Ϝώρα, 'watching', cf. βῶροι (i. e. ϝῶροι）: ὀφθαλμοί, Hsch., and ὁράω; cf. οὖρος(B).)
ὤρα (A), Ion. ὤρη , ἡ: (v. sub fin.):—
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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