A.pledge, surety, hostage, “ὁμήρους λαμβάνειν” Hdt.6.99 ; “ὁ. παῖδας λαβών” Id.1.64 ; “τὰ ἑωυτοῦ τέκνα δοὺς ὁ.” Id.7.165, cf. Th.7.83 ; “ἐν ὁμήρων λόγῳ ποιεύμενος” Hdt.7.222 ; ἄγεσθαι ὅμηροι to be carried off as hostages, Id.8.94,9.90 ; τοῖον ὅμηρόν μ᾽ ἀποσυλήσας having robbed me of such a hostage, E.Alc.870(anap.) ; ἔχω γ᾽ ὑμῶν ὁμήρους have hostages for you, Ar.Ach.327, cf. Lys.244 ; of things, “τὴν γῆν ὅμηρον ἔχειν” Th.1.82 : neut. pl., “ὅμηρα δούς” Lys.12.68, cf. Plb.3.52.5, OGI 751.5 (ii B.C.) ; “ὥσπερ . . ὁμήρους ἔχομεν τοῦ λόγου τὰ παραδείγματα” Pl. Tht.202e : neut. pl. even of one person, “μὴ πεμψάτω ὅμηρα τῶν Αἰαντείων μηθένα” Schwyzer 366.17 (Tolophon) ; “ὃς ἦν ὅμηρα” LXX 1 Ma. 1.10.
ὅμηρος , ὁ,
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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