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ὁμηρ-εύω (A),
A.to be or serve as a hostage, Aeschin.3.133, Antiph.117 ; “παρά τινι” Aeschin.2.81 ; “ὑπέρ τινος” Is.7.8, IG12(7).386.20 (Aegiale, iii B.C.) : metaph., “[οἶνος] πίστιν ἀνθρώποις καὶ φιλίαν -εύει” is the pledge of . . , J. AJ2.5.2.
II. take as a hostage, E.Rh.434 :—Med., give hostages, Aen.Tact.10.23 (the sense in E.Ba.297 is doubtful).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (6):
    • Aeschines, On the Embassy, 81
    • Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, 133
    • Euripides, Bacchae, 297
    • Euripides, Rhesus, 434
    • Isaeus, Apollodorus, 8
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 2.5.2
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