ὅμαδος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[noise]], [[din]], especially of the confused voices of a number of men (coupled with [[δοῦπος]], the [[tramp]] of men), <span class="bibl">Il.9.573</span>, <span class="bibl">23.234</span>, <span class="bibl">Od.10.556</span> (nowh. else in Od.); also opp. the sound of flutes and pipes, συρίγγων τ' ἐνοπὴν ὅμαδόν τ' ἀνθρώπων <span class="bibl">Il.10.13</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span>6.38</span>, <span class="bibl">Philyll.5</span> (lyr.); ὅμαδον ἄλυρον ἔλεγον <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hel.</span>185</span> (lyr.); rarely of a [[tempest]], <span class="bibl">Il.13.797</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[noisy throng]] or [[mob of warriors]], <span class="bibl">7.307</span>, <span class="bibl">15.689</span>, <span class="bibl">17.380</span>: metaph., βίβλων ὅμαδος <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>364e</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> [[din of battle]], <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Sc.</span>155</span>, <span class="bibl">257</span>; <b class="b3">χάλκεον στονόεντ' . . ὅμαδον</b> the [[din]] of [[brazen]] [[war]], <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">I.</span>8(7).27</span>.—Ep. and Lyr., never in Trag., exc. in E. l. c. (lyr.), once in Pl.l.c.</span>