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

  • πολλοῖσ δ’ ἂν εὑρ́οισ βοστρύχουσ ὁμοπτέρουσ καὶ μὴ γεγῶσιν αἵματοσ ταὐτοῦ, γέρον. (Euripides, episode 2:4)
  • ὁ δ’ ἐν δόμοισι πρέσβυσ ὀμματοστερὴσ ἀπήνασ ὁμοπτέρου τᾶσ ἀπο‐ ζυγείσασ δόμων πόθον ἀμφιδάκρυτον ἀεὶ κατ‐ έχων ἀνῇξε μὲν ξίφουσ ἐπ’ αὐτόχειρά τε σφαγάν, ὑπὲρ τέραμνά τ’ ἀγχόνασ, στενάζων ἀρὰσ τέκνοισ· (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric 2:1)
  • 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)
  • καὶ μὴν ὅδ’ ἐστὶ κάρτ’ ἰδεῖν ὁμόπτεροσ ‐ ποίαισ ἐθείραισ; (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode 7:12)

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

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