A.of raw, untanned ox-hide, “ἀσπίδας ὠμοβοΐνας” Hdt.7.76,79; γέρρα δασειῶν βοῶν ὠμοβόεια (v.l. -βόϊνα) X.An.4.7.22; δερμάτων ὠμοβοείων (v.l. βοΐνων) ib.26; σάλπιγξιν ὠμοβοΐναις ib.7.3.32 codd.:—ἡ ὠμοβοέη (sc. δορά), a raw ox-hide (cf. λεοντέη, etc.), Hdt.3.9, 4.65: in later writers usu. in form ὠμο-βόϊνος , Str.15.1.42, D.S.3.8, etc.: acc. pl. ὠμοβοεῖς in AP6.21.4 is formed by a false analogy, as if fr. ὠμοβοεύς.
ὠμο-βόειος , α, ον, Ion. ὠμο-βόεος , or ὠμο-βόϊνος ,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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