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ὁμόφυλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὁμόφυλος ὁμόφυλον

Structure: ὁμοφυλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fu=lon

Sense

  1. of the same race or stock, those of the same race, with those of the same stock, peopled by different races

Examples

  • Σιγῆσ οὖν παρὰ πάντων γενομένησ, "ἄνδρεσ, εἶπον, ὁμόφυλοι, θανεῖν μέν, εἰ δίκαιόν ἐστιν, οὐ παραιτοῦμαι. (Flavius Josephus, 170:1)
  • πῶσ οὖν ἤμελλον οἱ συμπεπορθημένοι καὶ ὁμόφυλοι τοιαύτην ὑπερηφανίαν καὶ ὕβριν κτήσασθαι κατὰ τῶν συναδικηθέντων; (Strabo, Geography, Book 8, chapter 3 58:4)
  • "ἄνδρεσ ὁμόφυλοι, μέμνησθε μὲν οἶδ’ ὅτι τῶν ἐμῶν εὐεργεσιῶν, ὅτι καὶ ἀγρῶν τινασ ἐποίησα δεσπότασ καὶ τιμῶν τῶν ἐν τῷ πλήθει καὶ τάξεων ἠξίωσα. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 6 323:2)
  • "ἄνδρεσ ὁμόφυλοι, γινώσκειν ὑμᾶσ νομίζω τοῦτο, ὅτι πᾶσ τόποσ ἔχει τὸν θεὸν καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ἓν ἀποδεδειγμένον χωρίον ἐν ᾧ πάρεστιν, ἀλλὰ πανταχοῦ τε ἀκούει καὶ τοὺσ θρησκεύοντασ ἐφορᾷ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 8 286:1)
  • "τὸ μὲν ὑπὲρ τῆσ ὑμετέρασ ἐλευθερίασ, ὁμόφυλοι, μετὰ τοῦ πατρὸσ ἐγώ τε καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοί μου ὡσ ἐτολμήσαμεν ἀσμένωσ ἀποθανεῖν οὐκέτ’ ἀγνοεῖτε. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 13 241:1)

Synonyms

  1. of the same race or stock

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

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