ὁμογάλακτες
τὸν αὐτὸν ἔρανον ἀποδοῦναι → pay him back in his own coin, repay him in his own coin, pay someone back in their own coin, pay back in someone's own coin, give tit for tat, pay back in kind
English (LSJ)
[γᾰ], οἱ,
A persons suckled with the same milk, foster-brothers or sisters : hence, like γεννῆται, clansmen, tribesmen, Arist.Pol.1252b18, Philoch.91 : nom. sg. ὁμογάλακτος in Longus 4.9. (Spelt ὁμογάλακες in Philoch. ap. Sch.Patm.D. inBCH1.152, perh. rightly, cf. γάλα.)
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ὁμογάλακτες: οἱ, οἱ θηλάσαντες τὸ αὐτὸ γάλα· ἀκολούθως ὡς τὸ γεννῆται, οἱ ἐκ τῆς αὐτῆς οἰκογενείας ἢ φυλῆς, Ἀριστ. Πολιτικ. 1. 2, 6. Φιλόχορος 91, πρβλ. Arnold Θουκ. τόμ. 1. παράρτ. 3· - ὁ Λόγγ. 4. 9 ἔχει τὴν ἀσυνήθη ὀνομ. ὁμογάλακτος. - Ἴδε Κόντου Φιλολ. Ποικίλα ἐν Ἀθηνᾶς τ. Α΄, σ. 171.
