ὀξέσι (oxesi)

ὀξέσι is an Ancient Greek form of ὀξύς, meaning “sharp, keen, piercing”. It is the dative plural masculine adjective.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De Defectu Oraculorum 51·2: εἰσὶ δʼ οἱ καὶ τὰ ἐπάνω φάσκοντες οὐχ ὑπομένειν, ἀλλʼ ἀπαυδῶντα πρὸς τὸ ἀίδιον καὶ ἄπειρον ὀξέσι χρῆσθαι μεταβολαῖς καὶ παλιγγενεσίαις.

Hippocrates, Prognosticon 5: … ὀλέθριον κάρτα ἤδη γίγνεται. Εὔ πνοιαν δὲ χρὴ νομίζειν κάρτα μεγάλην δύναμιν ἔχειν ἐς σωτηρίη ἐν ἅπασι τοῖσιν ὁξέσι νουσήμασιν, ὅσα ξὺν πυρετοῖσίν ἐστι καὶ ἐν τεσσαράκοντα ἡμέρησι κρίνεται.

All forms of ὀξύς (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.