Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὁμαλός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὁμαλός ὁμαλή ὁμαλόν

Structure: ὁμαλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: o(mo/s

Sense

  1. even, level, level
  2. on a level, equal, with an equal, on a level with, equal
  3. of the average sort, an ordinary sort of
  4. evenly, in an even line
  5. alike

Examples

  • φαίνεται δ’ ὁ μὲν Ἀριστείδησ οὔπω τότε μεγάλων οὐσῶν τῶν Ἀθηνῶν καὶ ταῖσ οὐσίαισ ἔτι συμμέτροισ καὶ ὁμαλοῖσ ἐπιβαλὼν δημαγωγοῖσ καὶ στρατηγοῖσ ἐπιφανὴσ γενέσθαι· (Plutarch, Comparison of Aristides with Marcus Cato, chapter 1 2:1)
  • προελθόντεσ γὰρ ἅμ’ ἡμέρα τὰσ δυσχωρίασ τῶν ὁδῶν κατέλαβον καὶ τὰσ διαβάσεισ τῶν ποταμῶν ἀπετείχισαν τάσ τε γεφύρασ ἀπέκοψαν, ἐν δὲ τοῖσ ὁμαλοῖσ καὶ πεδινοῖσ τοὺσ ἱππεῖσ ἔταξαν, ὥστε μηδένα λελεῖφθαι τοῖσ Ἀθηναίοισ τόπον ἀμαχεὶ προελθεῖν. (Plutarch, , chapter 26 3:1)
  • καὶ ἔστε μὲν ὁμαλοῖσ χωρίοισ ἐν τῇ φυγῇ ἐπετύγχανεν, ἐπὶ τοῦ ἁρ́ματοσ διεσώζετο, ὡσ δὲ φάραγξί τε καὶ ἄλλαισ δυσχωρίαισ ἐνέκυρσε, τὸ μὲν ἁρ́μα ἀπολείπει αὐτοῦ καὶ τὴν ἀσπίδα καὶ τὸν κάνδυν ἐκδύσ· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 2, chapter 11 5:1)
  • τοῖσ δὲ φυλλορροοῦσιν οὐκ ἔστι διὰ μανότητα τῶν ἄνω καὶ στενότητα τῶν κάτω πόρων, ὅταν οἱ μὲν μὴ ἐπιπέμπωσιν οἱ δὲ μὴ φυλάττωσιν ἀλλ’ ὀλίγην λαβόντεσ ἄθρουν ἐκχέωσιν, ὥσπερ ἐν ἀνδήροισ τισὶν οὐχ ὁμαλοῖσ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 3, 6:17)

Synonyms

  1. even

  2. on a level

  3. alike

Related

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

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