ὦμος

omos

the shoulder with the upper arm

Appears 31 times across Aristotle's works.

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History of Animals 8
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Book I 2
Chapter 14 493b2–11

493b8

Chapter 15 493b12–494b18

493b26
Book II 1
Chapter 1 497b6–501b4

498a25
Book III 2
Chapter 3 512b12–514a22

514a12

Chapter 7 516a8–516b30

516a31
Book VIII 3
Chapter 21 603a30–604a3

603b18

Chapter 26 605a23–605b5

605a31
605b1
Physiognomonics 6
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Chapter 5 809a26–810a13

809b27
809b33
Chapter 6 810a14–814b9

812b20
813a11
813a12
814b5
Progression of Animals 4
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Chapter 7 707a16–708a8

707b19
Chapter 10 709b20–710b4

709b25
Chapter 13 712a1–22

712a16
712a20
Mechanica 3
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Chapter 26 857a5–21

857a6
Chapter 27 857a22–33

857a23
857a29
Parts of Animals 3
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Book III 2
Chapter 2 662b23–664a11

663a36
663b6
Book IV 1
Chapter 11 690b11–692b2

691b28
De Mundo 2
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Chapter 6 397b7–401a11

398b18
400b3
Rhetoric 2
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Book I 2
Chapter 7 1363b5–1365b20

1365a26

Chapter 9 1366a23–1368a37

1367b19
De Audibilibus 1
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Chapter 1 800a1–804b39

804b14
Movement of Animals 1
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Chapter 1 698a1–698b7

698b3
De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus 1
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Chapter 155 846a6–21

846a13

Dictionary (LSJ)

ὦμος, ὁ: (v. sub fin.):—A. the shoulder with the upper arm (ὠλένη being the lower), ξίφεϊ κληῗδα παρʼ ὦμον πλῆξʼ, ἀπὸ δʼ αὐχένος ὦμον ἐέργαθεν ἠδʼ ἀπὸ νώτου Il. 5.146, cf. 8.325, Hdt. 4.62; μεταφρένῳ ἐν δόρυ πῆξεν ὤμων μεσσηγύς Il. 5.41; τεύχεʼ ἀπʼ ὤμων συλήσειν 15.544; ὦμος στιβαρός, ὦμοι ἴφθιμοι, 5.400, 18.204; εὐρέες 3.210; κυρτώ 2.217; ἀμφʼ ὤμοισιν ἔχει σάκος 11.527, cf. S. Fr. 453; ἐπʼ ὤμου . . φέρειν Od. 10.170, cf. Isoc. 19.39; ἀρεῖτʼ ἐπʼ ὤμου Herod. 3.61; κατʼ ὤμου δεῖρον ib.3; ἐπʼ ὤμων πατέρʼ ἔχων S. Fr. 373; τὰ ὦτα ἐπὶ τῶν ὤμων ἔχειν Pl. R. 613c; ὤμοισι φόρησεν Il. 19.11; ἑλὼν . . σάκος ὤμῳ 15.474; ὤμῳ or ὤμοισιν ἔχειν, 14.376, 1.45, al.; ὤμοις or ἐπʼ ὤμοις φέρειν, S. Fr. 454, Tr 564; ἔχειν ἀνὰ φαιδίμῳ ὤμῳ Od. 11.128, 23.275; λαβὼν . . ὦμον εἰς ἀριστερόν E. IT 1381; ἐπʼ ὤμοις θεῖναι Id. Ba. 755; κίονʼ οὐρανοῦ . . ὤμοις ἐρείδων A. Pr. 350; ὤμοισι τοῖσι ἐμοῖσι ‘by the strength of mine arms’, Hdt. 2.106; ἀποστρέψαι τὸν ὦ. to dislocate it, Ar. Eq. 263 (troch.); ὁ δʼ ὦμος . . πιέζεται Id. Ra. 30; τὸν ὦμον θλίβομαι Id. Fr. 323: pl. for sg., ὤμοις ἀριστεροῖσιν ἀνακλάσας δέρην E. Or. 1471. b. the shoulder is sts. more exactly specified as πρυμνότατος or πρυμνὸς ὦμος, Od. 17.462,504; νείατος ὦ. Il. 15.341, 17.310; sts. opp. χείρ (the arm), χεῖρες ὤμων . . ἐπαΐσσονται 23.628; τῶν ἑκατὸν μὲν χεῖρες ἀπʼ μων ἀΐσσοντο Hes. Th. 150; τοὺς ὤμους ἀποταμόντες σὺν τῇσι χερσί (arms) Hdt. 4.62; ἀποταμόντα ἐν τῷ ὤμῳ τὴν χεῖρα Id. 2.121.εʹ, cf. E. Ba. 1127, Arist. HA 493b26. 2. also of animals. as of a horse, Il. 6.510, 15.267, X. Eq. 8.6; of a lion, Hes. Sc. 430; of a dog, X. Cyn. 4.1; of crabs, Batr. 296; of birds, Plu. 2.983b; of ants, Gp. 13.10.14. 3. the shoulder, in a dress, ἐπὶ τῶν ὤμων τῆς ἐπωμίδος LXX Ex. 28.12, cf. 25(29); ἐπὶ τῷ ὤμῳ τοῦ χιτῶνος ὑποθέντες Aen.Tact. 31.23 codd. (ἐπὶ τῇ ᾤᾳ cj. Haupt). II. metaph. of the parts below the top or head of any thing, esp. of the fork of a vine (cf. ὠμοχάραξ), Gp. 4.12.4; of the womb, Heroph. ap. Gal. 4.596, cf. Ruf. Onom. 195. (Cf. Lat. umerus (fr. *omesos), Goth. ams (stem amsa-), Skt. áṃsas, also Aeol. ἐπ-ομμάδιος, and (non-Greek) ἀμέσω Hsch.)

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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