Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὁμόπτερος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὁμόπτερος ὁμόπτερον

Structure: ὁμοπτερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ptero/n

Sense

  1. of or with the same plumage, fellow-birds, birds of, feather
  2. of like feather, closely resembling, consort-, equally swift)

Examples

  • ἐποποῖ ποποποποποποποῖ, ἰὼ ἰὼ ἰτὼ ἰτὼ ἰτὼ ἰτὼ, ἴτω τισ ὧδε τῶν ἐμῶν ὁμοπτέρων· (Aristophanes, Birds, Parodos, monody1)
  • ἐν ἁγνῷ δ’ ἑσμὸσ ὡσ πελειάδων ἵζεσθε κίρκων τῶν ὁμοπτέρων φόβῳ, ἐχθρῶν ὁμαίμων καὶ μιαινόντων γένοσ. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, episode 2:16)

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

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