Ὅμιλος

crowd

Translated by Catharine Roth17 Dec 2009Vetting: high2 revisions

2 notes · 23 words

Translation

[Meaning a] gathering, mob, multitude.1
Homer [writes]: "a crowd [of people] taking pleasure [...]." The [singular noun] o(/milos has happened according to sense.2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ὅμιλος· ἄθροισμα, ὄχλος, πλῆθος. Ὅμηρος· ὅμιλος τερπόμενοι. πρὸς τὸ νοητὸν ἀπήντηκε τὸ ὅμιλος.

Betacode
*(/omilos: a)/qroisma, o)/xlos, plh=qos. *(/omhros: o(/milos terpo/menoi. pro\s to\ nohto\n a)ph/nthke to\ o(/milos. 

Notes (2)

  1. 1Likewise or similarly in other lexica (references at Photius omicron283 Theodoridis), and in a scholion on Homer, Iliad 7.186, where the accusative occurs (web address 1). For the related verb o(mile/w, see omicron 256. ↩
  2. 2Homer, Iliad 18.603-4 (web address 2), with scholion: the singular noun is construed according to sense with a plural participle. ↩

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Revision history2 revisions · last 25 Jun 2013
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. Translated — Catharine Roth

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