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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

  • "καὶ φιλάνθρωποσ οὐχ ὁμαλόσ ἐστιν οὐδ’ ὅμοιοσ ἀμφοτέροισ τοῖσ γένεσιν, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ ἱματίων οἰόμενοσ εἶναι διαφορὰσ ἐρώτων γυναικῶν καὶ ἀνδρῶν. (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 2111)
  • ἀλλ’ ἴσοσ καὶ ὁμαλὸσ ἐσθῆτι καὶ διαίτῃ καὶ τροφαῖσ παίδων καὶ θεραπείᾳ γυναικόσ, οἱο͂ν ὁμοδημεῖν καὶ συνανθρωπεῖν τοῖσ πολλοῖσ βουλόμενοσ. (Plutarch, Praecepta gerendae reipublicae, chapter, section 31 12:1)
  • ἐμοὶ δ’ ὅτε μὲν ὁμαλὸσ ὁ γάμοσ, ἄφοβοσ· (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, choral, epode1)
  • πλευσοῦμαι κἠγὼ διαπόντιοσ, οὔτε κάκιστοσ οὔτε πρᾶτοσ ἴσωσ, ὁμαλὸσ δέ τισ ὁ στρατιώτασ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 56)
  • τὸν μὲν οὖν λόφον, ἐφ’ οὗ τὸ ἱερὸν ἔμελλεν ἱδρύεσθαι, πολλῆσ δεόμενον πραγματείασ οὑ̓́τε γὰρ εὐπρόσοδοσ ἦν οὔτε ὁμαλόσ, ἀλλ’ ἀπότομοσ καὶ εἰσ κορυφὴν συναγόμενοσ ὀξεῖαν’ ἀναλήμμασιν ὑψηλοῖσ πολλαχόθεν περιλαβὼν καὶ πολὺν χοῦν εἰσ τὸ μεταξὺ τῶν τε ἀναλημμάτων καὶ τῆσ κορυφῆσ ἐμφορήσασ, ὁμαλὸν γενέσθαι παρεσκεύασε καὶ πρὸσ ἱερῶν ὑποδοχὴν ἐπιτηδειότατον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 69 1:2)

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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