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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

  • "ὕδατι γὰρ τεταραγμένῳ προσπεσόντα χρῆσθαι δι’ ἀκρασίαν ἧττόν ἐστι κακόν, ὡσ Σωκράτησ ἔλεγεν, ἢ θολερὸν ὄντα καὶ διάπλεων τὸν λογισμὸν ὀργῆσ καὶ μανίασ, πρὶν ἢ καταστῆναι καὶ γενέσθαι καθαρὸν ἐμφορεῖσθαι τιμωρίασ συγγενοῦσ καὶ ὁμοφύλου σώματοσ. (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 57)
  • τὸ δὲ ἀνδρεῖον καὶ τὸ ταλαί πωρον καὶ τὸ ἔμπονον καὶ τὸ θυμοειδὲσ οὐκ ἂν δύναιτο ἐν τοιαύτῃ φύσει ἐγγίνεσθαι οὔτε ὁμοφύλου οὔτε ἀλλοφύλου, ἀλλὰ τὴν ἡδονὴν ἀνάγκη κρατεῖν . (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , xii.10)
  • τότε γὰρ ἅλωσιν αὐτῆσ προεῖπον, ὅταν ὁμοφύλου τισ ἄρξῃ φόνου. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 120:2)
  • εἰ μέντοι τινὰ τῶν Ἑβραί̈δων γυναικῶν ἀχθῆναι ποιήσειασ, τάχα ἂν προσοῖτο θηλὴν ὁμοφύλου. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 2 280:2)
  • οὐ γὰρ δίκαιον προσοδεύεσθαι τοῦ ὁμοφύλου τὰσ τύχασ, ἀλλὰ βοηθήσαντασ ταῖσ χρείαισ αὐτοῦ κέρδοσ εἶναι νομίζειν τήν τ’ ἐκείνων εὐχαριστίαν καὶ τὴν ἀμοιβὴν τὴν παρὰ τοῦ θεοῦ γενησομένην ἐπὶ τῇ χρηστότητι. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 4 338:2)

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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