ὅμιλος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=Aeol. ὄμιλλος <span class="bibl"><span class="title">EM</span>658.55</span> : ὁ : (ὁμός, ἴλη) <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[any assembled crowd]], [[throng of people]], for a feast, <span class="bibl">Od.1.225</span>; for a spectacle, <span class="bibl">Il.18.603</span>,<span class="bibl">23.651</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>9.123</span>, al., <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span>123</span>, al., <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Cyc.</span>100</span>, al., Hdt. (v. infr.) : rare in Att. Com. and Prose, as <span class="bibl">Cratin.323</span>, <span class="bibl">Th.2.65</span>, <span class="bibl">4.112</span>; esp. <b class="b2">the mass of the people, the crowd</b>, opp. the chiefs, προπάροιθεν ὁμίλου <span class="bibl">Il.3.22</span>; <b class="b3">ὅ. Δαναῶν, Τρώων</b>, etc., <span class="bibl">19.402</span>,<span class="bibl">4.86</span>, al. ; ἵππων καὶ ἀνδρῶν ὅ. <span class="bibl">10.338</span>; <b class="b3">τὸν ψιλὸν ὅ</b>. the [[crowd]] of irregulars, opp. [[ὁπλῖται]], <span class="bibl">Th.4.125</span>; [[mob]], διδασκάλῳ χρείωνται ὁμίλῳ <span class="bibl">Heraclit.104</span>; ὁ πολλὸς ὅ. <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.88</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">3.81</span>; τυφλὸν δ' ἔχει ἦτορ ὅ. ἀνδρῶν ὁ πλεῖστος <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span>7.24</span>; but also <b class="b3">ὅ. πολλὸς μὲν Ἕλλην περιοικέει</b> a large Hellenic [[population]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.5.23</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> of inanimate objects, [σῆμα] οὔ τι μεμιγμένον ἐστὶν ὁμίλῳ <span class="bibl">Od.8.196</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[throng]] of battle, τὴν ἔξαγ' ὁμίλου <span class="bibl">Il.5.353</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">4.516</span>, etc. ; <b class="b3">πρώτῳ ἐν ὁ</b>. in the forefront of [[battle]], <span class="bibl">17.471</span> : generally, [[tumult]], [[confusion]], βοῇ καὶ ὁμίλῳ <span class="bibl">Hdt.9.59</span>; σοφίῃ καὶ μὴ βίῃ καὶ ὁ. <span class="bibl">Id.3.127</span>.—The word seems not to be used in pl.</span>