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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

  • ἀλλὰ ταῦτα μὲν ὕστερον ἐπείσθησαν Ῥωμαῖοι, μάλιστα τοῦ Τίτου συμπράξαντοσ, ἀφεῖναι τῷ Φιλίππῳ, καὶ σύμμαχον ἐψηφίσαντο, καὶ τὸν υἱὸν ἀπήλλαξαν αὐτῷ τῆσ ὁμηρείασ. (Plutarch, Titus Flamininus, chapter 14 2:1)
  • ὁ δὲ τῶν Τυρρηνῶν βασιλεὺσ τὰ ὅμηρα τῶν Ῥωμαίων ἐπὶ τὸ βῆμα προαχθῆναι κελεύσασ ἀποδίδωσι τῷ ὑπάτῳ εἰπών, ὅτι πάσησ ὁμηρείασ κρείττονα ἡγεῖται τὴν πίστιν τῆσ πόλεωσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 5, chapter 34 4:1)
  • καὶ Δημήτριοσ ἐσ ἀντιλογίαν ἐπρέσβευεν ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ, κεχαρισμένοσ μὲν ἔκπαλαι Ῥωμαίοισ ἀπὸ τῆσ ὁμηρείασ, Φλαμινίνου δὲ αὐτὸν τῇ βουλῇ γνωρίζοντοσ ἰσχυρῶσ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 8:2)
  • Φίλιππον δέ, φασί, τὸν Μακεδόνα καὶ πολέμῳ κρατήσαντεσ ἄρχειν ἐῶσι, καὶ τὸν παῖδα αὐτῷ τῆσ ὁμηρείασ ἀπελύσαμεν, καὶ τὸ ἔτι ὄφλημα τῶν χρημάτων. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 5 1:19)
  • καὶ τὸν ἀδελφὸν ὅδε Ἀντίοχον ἐξέλυσε τῆσ ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίοισ ὁμηρείασ, ἀντιδοὺσ τὸν ἑαυτοῦ παῖδα Δημήτριον. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 8 1:2)

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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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