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οἶμον (oimon)

οἶμον is an Ancient Greek form of οἷμος, meaning “way, road, path; stripe”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 36 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.1127: ᾗ ἔνι πείρομεν οἶμον ἐπὶ χρέος ἐμβεβαῶτες.

Plato, Phaedo 108: ἔστι δὲ ἄρα ἡ πορεία οὐχ ὡς ὁ Αἰσχύλου Τήλεφος λέγει· ἐκεῖνος μὲν γὰρ ἁπλῆν οἶμόν φησιν εἰς Ἅιδου φέρειν, ἡ δ᾽ οὔτε ἁπλῆ οὔτε μία φαίνεταί μοι εἶναι. οὐδὲ γὰρ ἂν ἡγεμόνων ἔδει· οὐ γάρ πού τις …

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 2: Σκύθην ἐς οἷμον, ἄβατον εἰς ἐρημίαν.

All forms of οἷμος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.