Ancient Greek

Noun

οἶστρος • ‎(oîstros) m ‎(genitive οἴστρου); second declension

1. gadfly, breese
   • Homer, Odyssey 22.300
   1. an insect which infests tuna
      • Aristotle, History of Animals 5.31,8
   2. a small insectivorous bird, perhaps the willow warbler
      • Aristotle, History of Animals 8.3,5
2. (figuratively) a sting, anything that drives mad
   • Euripides, Herakles 862
   1. (absolute) the smart of pain, agony
      • Sophocles, Women of Trachis 1254
   2. any vehement desire, mad desire, insane passion
      • Herodotus, Histories 2.93
   3. madness, frenzy
      • Sopocles, Antigone 1002

Inflection

References

• οἶστρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• οἶστρος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• οἶστρος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «οἶστρος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «οἶστρος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • fly idem, page 331.
  • frenzy idem, page 344.
  • gadfly idem, page 351.
  • madness idem, page 507.
  • rage idem, page 668.
  • sting idem, page 817.
  • transport idem, page 889.
• LSJ 8th edition