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ὄσσα^ , Att. ὄττα , ἡ,
A.a rumour, which, from its origin being unknown, was held divine, “ὄ. ἐκ Διός” Od.1.282, 2.216 ; personified as messenger of Zeus, Il.2.93, Od.24.413.
2. generally, voice, of the Muses, Hes.Th.10,43,65 ; of a bull, ib.832.
3. more generally, sound, of the lyre, h.Merc.443 ; din of battle, Hes.Th.701.
4. ominous voice or sound, prophecy, warning, Pi.O.6.62 ; “ὄρνιθος ὄ.” A.R.1.1087.—Rare in Prose, “κακὴν ὄτταν” Pl.Lg.800c ; “ὄτταν ἀγαθήν” Ael.NA12.1 ; “δι᾽ ὀνειράτων καὶ συμβόλων καὶ δι᾽ ὄττης” Porph.Abst.2.53. (Hence ὀττεύομαι: ὄσσα prob. fr. woq[uglide]-ya, cf. (ϝ）έπος.）
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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