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ὁμηρεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὁμηρεία

Structure: ὁμηρει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: o(mhreu/w

Sense

  1. a giving of hostages or securities a security

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

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)

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

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