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Definition of Omicrons
1. omicron [n] - See also: omicron
Lexicographical Neighbors of Omicrons
Literary usage of Omicrons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A System of Greek Prosody and Metre, for the Use of Schools and Colleges by Charles Anthon (1842)
"... is equivalent to two omicrons, one of which it loses before the following
vowel, while the other remains short. In like manner, the diphthongs ai in ..."
2. A Grammar of the Greek Language: Principally from the German of Kühner, with by Charles Anthon, Raphael Kühner (1849)
"On the other hand, in the foot oí/cu ív, the omega is not in the arsis, and hence,
after this vowel has lost one of its component omicrons before the next ..."
3. Prometheus by Aeschylus (1905)
"In Aeschylus the proportion of omegas to omicrons is I : 2 (with ... Passages like
Prometheus 901-904, where there are 21 omicrons in four verses, ..."
4. Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens by Archaeological Institute of America (1897)
"But since a careful scrutiny of all the other omicrons of our inscription fails
to discover any cross marks, the interpretation of this one case as the ..."
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