Homeric Greek by Clyde Pharr - Lesson LXVII, vocabulary, ἠρι-γένειος, α, ον

Greek Homeric Greek and Early Greek Poetry
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I did some search, and it appears that this adjective has only the feminine form ἠρι-γένεια; could somebody please confirm?..

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P.S. I would like to add a question regarding εὐρύοψ, οπος (Vocabulary, Lesson LXIX): I understand, from another dictionary, that the form εὐρύοψ is unattested. Is it worth maintaining it as *εὐρύοψ, or is it better to indicate it, within the scope of this manual, in its accusative/vocative form εὐρύοπα?..

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I did some search, and it appears that this adjective has only the feminine form ἠρι-γένεια; could somebody please confirm?..

ἠριγένεια only appears in Homer as an epithet of Ἠώς, so there seems to be no attested masculine or neuter forms.

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P.S. I would like to add a question regarding εὐρύοψ, οπος (Vocabulary, Lesson LXIX): I understand, from another dictionary, that the form εὐρύοψ is unattested. Is it worth maintaining it as *εὐρύοψ, or is it better to indicate it, within the scope of this manual, in its accusative/vocative form εὐρύοπα?..

I would have thought that its best to indicate the form found in a dictionary. Cunliffe has an entry for εὐρύοπα. He says this form is both the vocative and accusative form. He notes " Prob. orig. a voc. and turned into nom. and acc."

I think you should aim to make your presentation as simple as possible without confusing your neophyte reader with complications about theoretical but unattested forms.

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εὐρύοπα is the nominative. It’s basically an indeclinable word that shows up next to Zeus in nom./voc./acc.

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Thank you, Seneca and Joel.

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P.S. By the way, the dictionary I had used in relation with εὐρύοπα is dictionaire étimologique de la langue greque of Pierre Chantraine.