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ὄψα (opsa)

ὄψα is an Ancient Greek form of ὄψος, meaning “relish, cooked food”.

It can also be a form of ὄψον, “relish, cooked food”. It is the accusative plural neuter noun.

Found 41 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Theseus 23.3: … αραλαμβάνονται καὶ κοινωνοῦσι τῆς θυσίας ἀπομιμούμεναι τὰς μητέρας ἐκείνων τῶν λαχόντων· ἐπεφοίτων γὰρ αὐτοῖς ὄψα καὶ σιτία κομίζουσαι· καὶ μῦθοι λέγονται διὰ τὸ κἀκείνας εὐθυμίας ἕνεκα καὶ παρηγορίας μύθους διεξιέναι τοῖς …

All forms of ὄψος (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.