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ὁμοήθης

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὁμοήθης ὁμοήθες

Structure: ὁμοηθη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: h)=qos

Sense

  1. of the same habits or character

Examples

  • ὁ δὲ Μεγακλείδησ φησὶ τὸν Ὀδυσσέα καθομιλοῦντα τοὺσ καιροὺσ ὑπὲρ τοῦ δοκεῖν ὁμοήθη τοῖσ Φαίαξιν εἶναι τὸ ἁβροδίαιτον αὐτῶν ἀσπάζεσθαι, προπυθόμενον τοῦ Ἀλκίνου· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 7 1:3)
  • πολλοὶ δ’ αὖ διαμένουσιν, ἐὰν ἐκ τῆσ συνηθείασ τὰ ἤθη στέρξωσιν, ὁμοήθεισ ὄντεσ. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 8 40:1)
  • ἴσοι γὰρ καὶ ἡλικιῶται, οἱ τοιοῦτοι δ’ ὁμοπαθεῖσ καὶ ὁμοήθεισ ὡσ ἐπὶ τὸ πολύ. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 8 115:3)
  • λείπεται δὴ ἐκεῖνοσ μόνοσ ἄξιοσ λόγου φίλοσ τῷ τοιούτῳ, ὃσ ἂν ὁμοήθησ ὤν, ταὐτὰ ψέγων καὶ ἐπαινῶν, ἐθέλῃ ἄρχεσθαι καὶ ὑποκεῖσθαι τῷ ἄρχοντι. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 386:5)

Synonyms

  1. of the same habits or character

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

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