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

  • νῦν δ’ ἐσ Ὁμήρειον ἔβα κέλευθον, σὰν χάριν, ἁγνὰ πολύβουλε Παλλάσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 15, chapter 22 3:2)
  • Ὁμήρειον δὲ καλεῦμαι γράμμα· (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 1 30:7)
  • ἔστι δὲ καὶ βιβλιοθήκη καὶ τὸ Ὁμήρειον, στοὰ τετράγωνοσ, ἔχουσα νεὼν Ὁμήρου καὶ ξόανον· (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 1 67:5)
  • μεταποιοῦνται γὰρ καὶ οὗτοι διαφερόντωσ τοῦ ποιητοῦ, καὶ δὴ καὶ νόμισμά τι χαλκοῦν παρ’ αὐτοῖσ Ὁμήρειον λέγεται. (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 1 67:6)
  • Οἱ δὲ καὶ βουσὶν ἐμβάλλοντεσ καὶ ἀποπερονῶντεσ ἐξαμαρτάνουσι, καὶ ὅτι διὰ τὴν χρῆσιν, ὡσ χρῆται βοῦσ σκέλεϊ, λήθει, καὶ ὅτι κοινὸν καὶ ἀνθρώπῳ οὕτωσ ἔχοντι τὸ σχῆμα τοῦτο‧ τό τε Ὁμήρειον‧ καὶ διότι λεπτότατοι βόεσ τηνικαῦτα. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., MOXLIKOS., 5.5)

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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