ὁμηρεία
First declension Noun; Feminine
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
ὁμηρεία
Structure:
ὁμηρει
(Stem)
+
ᾱ
(Ending)
Sense
- 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.
- 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)