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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

  • τοῦτο γὰρ ἓν καὶ ὅλον ἐστὶ βασιλικῆσ συνυφάνσεωσ ἔργον, μηδέποτε ἐᾶν ἀφίστασθαι σώφρονα ἀπὸ τῶν ἀνδρείων ἤθη, συγκερκίζοντα δὲ ὁμοδοξίαισ καὶ τιμαῖσ καὶ ἀτιμίαισ καὶ δόξαισ καὶ ὁμηρειῶν ἐκδόσεσιν εἰσ ἀλλήλουσ, λεῖον καὶ τὸ λεγόμενον εὐήτριον ὕφασμα συνάγοντα ἐξ αὐτῶν, τὰσ ἐν ταῖσ πόλεσιν ἀρχὰσ ἀεὶ κοινῇ τούτοισ ἐπιτρέπειν. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 323:3)
  • εἰ μὴ Ὁμηρείων ἐξελάθου χαρίτων. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 380 1:1)
  • καὶ γάρ, ὦ Σώκρατεσ, περὶ τούτων τῶν Ἡρακλειτείων ἤ, ὥσπερ σὺ λέγεισ, Ὁμηρείων καὶ ἔτι παλαιοτέρων, αὐτοῖσ μὲν τοῖσ περὶ τὴν Ἔφεσον, ὅσοι προσποιοῦνται ἔμπειροι, οὐδὲν μᾶλλον οἱο͂́ν τε διαλεχθῆναι ἢ τοῖσ οἰστρῶσιν. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 229:2)
  • Κλεισθένησ γὰρ Ἀργείοισι πολεμήσασ τοῦτο μὲν ῥαψῳδοὺσ ἔπαυσε ἐν Σικυῶνι ἀγωνίζεσθαι τῶν Ὁμηρείων ἐπέων εἵνεκα, ὅτι Ἀργεῖοί τε καὶ Ἄργοσ τὰ πολλὰ πάντα ὑμνέαται· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 5, chapter 67 2:2)

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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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