Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

Ὁμήρειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ὁμήρειος Ὁμήρειον

Structure: Ὁμηρει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. Homeric, the Homeric phrase

Examples

  • πόλιν αὐτοὶ μὲν ἐκπίπτουσιν ὑπὸ Ἐλύμων καὶ Φοινίκων πολέμῳ πιεσθέντεσ, τὰσ νήσουσ δὲ ἔσχον ἐρήμουσ ἔτι ἢ ἀναστήσαντεσ τοὺσ ἐνοικοῦντασ, ἃσ καὶ κατὰ τὰ τὰ ἔπη τὰ Ὁμήρεια Αἰόλου καὶ ἐσ ἡμᾶσ ἔτι ὀνομάζουσι. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 11 6:1)
  • πείθει οὖν αὐτὸν ἐκπέμπειν εἰσ Ῥώμην ἐφ’ ὁμηρείᾳ τοὺσ γνησίουσ παῖδασ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 18 54:1)

Synonyms

  1. Homeric

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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