Ὁμοστιχάει

marches in the same row

Translated by Catharine Roth21 Dec 2009Vetting: high3 revisions

5 words

[Meaning he/she/it] walks together [with].

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ὁμοστιχάει· ὁμοῦ περιπατεῖ.

Betacode

*(omostixa/ei: o(mou= peripatei=.

Notes

From Homer, Iliad 15.635 (in a simile, of a herdsman walking with his cattle): web address 1.
Glosses in other lexica (e.g. Hesychius omicron807) are similar but not identical.
A scholion on this passage reports that Dionysius Thrax considered the form barbarous: see sigma 1120.

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Linked from1 entry

ο46Ὀδόςthreshold[o)do/s means the same as] ou)do/s. Sophocles [writes]: "after he had arrived at the down-plunging threshold" -- that is, at the doorpost -- "rooted in the earth with brazen [sc. steps]." He is speaking about Hades.

Neighbouring entries

ο285Ὁμόσιτονmess-mate ο286Ὁμόσπονδοςsharing a drink-offering, bound together by treaty ο287Ὁμοστιχάειmarches in the same row ο288Ὁμόστολοςaccompanying ο289Ὁμόσφυροςankle-sharer, walking companion

Revision history3 revisions · last 9 Apr 2014

9 Apr 2014cross-reference — Catharine Roth
26 Jun 2013Revised — David Whitehead
21 Dec 2009cosmetics — David Whitehead
21 Dec 2009Translated — Catharine Roth