ὄφεως (opheos)

ὄφεως is an Ancient Greek form of ὄφις, meaning “snake”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 34 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Amatorius 12: … γιστον ἱερὸν καὶ θεῖον ἔνιοι προσαγορεύουσιν. εἶθʼ ὥσπερ ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ ποτὲ γείτονας ἑώρων δύο διαμφισβητοῦντας, ὄφεως προσερπύσαντος εἰς τὴν ὁδόν, ἀμφοτέρων μὲν ἀγαθὸν δαίμονα καλούντων, ἑκατέρου δʼ ἔχειν ἀξιοῦντος ὡς ἴδιον· οὕ …

Pausanias, Description of Greece 9.19.3: κατὰ δὲ τὴν ἐς Γλίσαντα εὐθεῖαν ἐκ Θηβῶν λίθοις χωρίον περιεχόμενον λογάσιν Ὄφεως καλοῦσιν οἱ Θηβαῖοι κεφαλήν, τὸν ὄφιν τοῦτον—ὅστις δὴ ἦν—ἀνασχεῖν ἐνταῦθα ἐκ τοῦ φωλεοῦ λέγοντες τὴν κεφαλήν, …

All forms of ὄφις (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.