Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὁμαίμων

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὁμαίμων ὁμαίμον

Structure: ὁμαιμων (Stem)

Sense

  1. more near akin
  2. a brother or sister

Examples

  • ἁρπαγαὶ δὲ διαδρομᾶν ὁμαίμονεσ· (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 34)
  • ὦ σπέρματ’ ἀνδρὸσ τοῦδ’, ἐμαὶ δ’ ὁμαίμονεσ, πειράσατ’ ἀλλ’ ὑμεῖσ γε κινῆσαι πατρὸσ τὸ δυσπρόσοιστον κἀπροσήγορον στόμα, ὡσ μή μ’ ἄτιμον, τοῦ θεοῦ γε προστάτην, οὕτωσ ἀφῇ με μηδὲν ἀντειπὼν ἔποσ. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode17)

Synonyms

  1. a brother or sister

Related

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

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