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ὀφθαλμούς (ophthalmous)

ὀφθαλμούς is an Ancient Greek form of ὀφθαλμός, meaning “eye”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun.

Found 277 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.1068: δεξιτερῆς· δὴ γάρ οἱ ἀπʼ ὀφθαλμοὺς λίπεν αἰδώς·

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 8.1.29: … ν ὁ ἐν τοῖς ὄμμασιν ἀτμός, διειστήκει ἂν πρὸς τὸν ὅμοιον ἀέρα· νῦν δὲ * * ἔστιν ἐν οἷς ἡλίου πύλας καλεῖ τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς. τὰ δʼ αὐτὰ καὶ περὶ τῆς ἀκοῆς καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν αἰσθήσεων δογματίζει.

All forms of ὀφθαλμός (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.