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ὁμηρεία?

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: homēreia

Principal Part: ὁμηρεία

Structure: ὁμηρει (Stem) + α (Ending)

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

  • ἴσθι δ ὑπὸ χθονὸς ὤν, ὅτι σοι κλέος ἄφθιτον ἔσται ἶσον Ὁμηρείαις ἀενάοις χάρισιν. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 3)
  • συνθέμενοι δὲ ταῦτα καὶ τέκνων ὁμηρείαις τὰς πίστεις βεβαιώσαντες κοινῇ στρατεύουσιν ἐπὶ τὰς πόλεις τῶν Ῥοτόλων: (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 59 2:1)
  • χαῖρε μελαμπετάλοις, Εὐριπίδη, ἐν γυάλοισι Πιερίας τὸν ἀεὶ νυκτὸς ἔχων θάλαμον ἴσθι δ ὑπὸ χθονὸς ὤν, ὅτι σοι κλέος ἄφθιτον ἔσται ἶσον Ὁμηρείαις ἀενάοις χάρισιν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 431)
  • 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)
  • 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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