*(orka/nas: ei(rkta/s.
The headword is a feminine noun (
omicron 591), here in the accusative plural; see generally LSJ and
Hesychius s.v.
o(rka/nh. It is taken to be extracted from
Euripides,
Bacchae 611 (web address 1), where Dionysus asks how the chorus-leader felt when he (Dionysus) was being cast into what seemed to be Pentheus' prison chambers.
[1] The headword is identically glossed in the
Synagoge,
Photius'
Lexicon (omicron482 Theodoridis), and
Lexica Segueriana 320.21 (though in this last the headword has its accent on the ultima,
o(rkana/s. Compare also
Hesychius omicron1228 (nominative singular).
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