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ὁμοιόω

homoioo

make like

Appears 31 times across Plato's dialogues.

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ὁμοιόω, Th. 3.82, Pl. R. 393c : aor. ὡμοίωσα E. Hel. 33, Isoc. 11.8 :— Med., Hdt. (v. infr.) :—mostly in Pass., fut. ὁμοιωθήσομαι Pl. Lg. 964d, or in med. form ὁμοιώσομαι Hdt. 7.158 : aor. ὡμοιώθην Th. 5.103, Pl. R. 510a, Isoc. 5.114, etc. ; Ep. inf. ὁμοιωθήμεναι (v. infr.) : pf. ὡμοίωμαι Pl. R. 431e :—A. make like, ὁμοιώσασʼ ἐμοὶ εἴδωλον ἔμπνουν E. Hel. 33 ; πᾶν παντὶ ὁ. Pl. Phdr. 261e ; ἑαυτὸν ἄλλῳ Id. R. 393c ; χοῦν . . -ώσαντες τῷ ἄλλῳ χώρῳ Hdt. 8.28 ; τοῖς πεπλασμένοις καὶ τοῖς γεγραμμένοις τὴν τοῦ σώματος φύσιν Isoc. 9.75 ; ἑαυτῷ τι Arist. GC 324a10 ; πρὸς τὰ παρόντα τὰς ὀργὰς τῶν πολλῶν ὁ. makes them correspond to prevailing conditions, Th. 3.82 :—Pass., to be made like, become like, in Hom. only in aor. inf. Pass., ὁμοιωθήμεναι ἄντην Il. 1.187, Od. 3.120 ; ὁμοιωθέντʼ Ἀφροδίτῃ Emp. 22.5 ; ὀργὰς πρέπει θεοὺς οὐχ ὁμοιοῦσθαι βροτοῖς E. Ba. 1348, cf. Med. 890 ; ἐς τὴν εὐβουλίαν . . ἄλλοις ὁ. Th. 2.97, cf. 5.103, Hdt. 7.158 ; κατὰ τὸ ἦθος ὁ. τοῖς ἐκείνου βουλήμασιν Isoc. 5.114. 2. liken, compare, in Med., τὰς πάθας τὰς Κύρου τῇσι ἑωυτοῦ -ούμενος Hdt. 1.123 :—later in Act., τίνι ὁμοιώσω τὴν γενεὰν ταύτην; Ev.Matt. 11.16 ; ἡ πόλις τινὰ Λυκούργῳ κατὰ τὸ ἦθος καὶ τὴν πρᾶξιν ὁμοιοῦσα BSA 29.35 (Sparta, iv A. D.). II. intr., to be like, interpol. in Dsc. 3.45.
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