ὅμιλος
homilos
any assembled crowd, throng of people
Appears 90 times across Homer's epics.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
ὅμιλος, Aeol. ὄμιλλος EM 658.55 : ὁ : (ὁμός, ἴλη) A. any assembled crowd, throng of people, for a feast, Od. 1.225 ; for a spectacle, Il. 18.603,23.651, cf. P. 9.123, al., Pers. 123, al., Cyc. 100, al., (v. infr.) : rare in Att. Com. and Prose, as 323, 2.65, 4.112 ; esp. the mass of the people, the crowd, opp. the chiefs, προπάροιθεν ὁμίλου Il. 3.22 ; ὅ. Δαναῶν, Τρώων, etc., 19.402,4.86, al. ; ἵππων καὶ ἀνδρῶν ὅ. 10.338 ; τὸν ψιλὸν ὅ. the crowd of irregulars, opp. ὁπλῖται, 4.125 ; mob, διδασκάλῳ χρείωνται ὁμίλῳ 104 ; ὁ πολλὸς ὅ. 1.88, cf. 3.81 ; τυφλὸν δʼ ἔχει ἦτορ ὅ. ἀνδρῶν ὁ πλεῖστος N. 7.24 ; but also ὅ. πολλὸς μὲν Ἕλλην περιοικέει a large Hellenic population, 5.23. b. of inanimate objects, [σῆμα] οὔ τι μεμιγμένον ἐστὶν ὁμίλῳ Od. 8.196. 2. throng of battle, τὴν ἔξαγʼ ὁμίλου Il. 5.353, cf. 4.516, etc. ; πρώτῳ ἐν ὁ. in the forefront of battle, 17.471 : generally, tumult, confusion, βοῇ καὶ ὁμίλῳ 9.59 ; σοφίῃ καὶ μὴ βίῃ καὶ ὁ. 3.127.—The word seems not to be used in pl.
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