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ὁμότροπος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: homotropos

Principal Part: ὁμότροπος ὁμότροπον

Structure: ὁμοτροπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of the same habits or life, messmates
  2. of like fashion

Examples

  • καὶ τοιαῦτα ἕτερα πρὸς τοὺς ξένους καὶ τῶν πολιτῶν τοὺς ὁμοτρόπους καὶ ταὐτὰ προαιρουμένους. (Theophrastus, Characters, 7:2)
  • περὶ δὲ τῶν ὁμοτρόπων τῶν Τιμάρχου, φεύγων τὰς ἀπεχθείας, ὧν ἥκιστά μοι μέλει μνησθήσομαι. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 158 1:1)
  • εἰ μὲν οὖν τις ἐρωτήσειεν ἕνα ἄνδρα ἢ πολλοὺς ὁμοῦ περὶ τῶν ὀνομάτων αἰτῶν, ἐν ποίῳ δὴ μέρει τὰ τοιαῦτα κατατάττεται, πόλεμοι καὶ στάσεις καὶ νόσοι καὶ τὰ τούτοις ὁμότροπα, οὐδὲν ἂν μελλήσας ἀποκρίναιτο ὅτι ταῦτα ἐν τοῖς κακοῖς τάττεται καὶ οὕτως ὡς ἔχει καὶ νενόμισται καὶ καλεῖται κακά. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 26:1)
  • λέγοιτο δ ἄν τις Πυρρώνειος ὁμότροπος. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Q, Kef. ia'. PURRWN 10:9)
  • ὁμότροπα γὰρ ἂν ἦν τοῖσι Ἕλλησι καὶ οὐ νεωστὶ ἐσηγμένα. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 49 3:3)

Synonyms

  1. of the same habits or life

  2. of like fashion

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

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