ὧι (hoi)

ὧι is an Ancient Greek form of ὄις, meaning “sheep”. It is the vocative singular masculine noun.

Found 36 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.674: Ὤι μοι ἐγώ, Μήδεια, τί δὴ τάδε δάκρυα λείβεις;

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.1.18: … σκοποι. Μενέξενος ἢ περὶ τοῦ ἄρχειν. Ἀλκιβιάδης. Ἀρχέλαος ἢ περὶ βασιλείας. Καὶ ταῦτα μέν ἐστιν ἃ συνέγραψεν. Ὧι Τίμων διὰ τὸ πλῆθος ἐπιτιμῶν παντοφυῆ φλέδονά φησιν αὐτόν. ἐτελεύτησε δὲ ἀρρωστίᾳ· ὅτε καὶ Διογένης εἰσιὼν πρ …

Plutarch, Caius Marcius Coriolanus 11.2: ωι καὶ μάλιστα δῆλόν ἐστιν ὅτι τῶν ὀνομάτων ἴδιον ἦν ὁ Γάϊος, τὸ δὲ δεύτερον οἰκίας ἢ γένους κοινὸν ὁ Μάρκιος, τ …

All forms of ὄις (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.