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ὁμόταφος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὁμόταφος ὁμόταφον

Structure: ὁμοταφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. buried together

Examples

  • τε γὰρ Διοχίτην ὀνομάζεσθαι πολίχνην λέγουσιν, ὡσ μόνην τὸν ἀληθινὸν ἔχουσαν, ἒν τ’ Ἀβύδῳ τοὺσ εὐδαίμονασ τῶν Αἰγυπτίων καὶ δυνατοὺσ μάλιστα θάπτεσθαι, φιλοτιμουμένουσ ὁμοτάφουσ; (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 20 8:1)
  • ἀναγίγνωσκε δὴ ἃ περὶ τοῦ ὁμοτάφουσ αὐτοὺσ γενέσθαι λέγει ἐν τῷ ὕπνῳ ὁ Πάτροκλοσ, καὶ περὶ τῶν διατριβῶν, ἃσ συνδιέτριβον ἀλλήλοισ. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 1491)

Synonyms

  1. buried together

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

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