Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.any assembled crowd, throng of people, for a feast, Od.1.225 ; for a spectacle, Il.18.603,23.651, cf. Pi.P.9.123, al., A.Pers.123, al., E.Cyc.100, al., Hdt. (v. infr.) : rare in Att. Com. and Prose, as Cratin.323, Th.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, Th.4.125 ; mob, “διδασκάλῳ χρείωνται ὁμίλῳ” Heraclit.104 ; “ὁ πολλὸς ὅ.” Hdt.1.88, cf. 3.81 ; “τυφλὸν δ᾽ ἔχει ἦτορ ὅ. ἀνδρῶν ὁ πλεῖστος” Pi.N.7.24 ; but also ὅ. πολλὸς μὲν Ἕλλην περιοικέει a large Hellenic population, Hdt.5.23.

b. of inanimate objects, “[σῆμα] οὔ τι μεμιγμένον ἐστὶν ὁμίλῳ” Od.8.196.

2. throng of battle, “τὴν ἔξαγ᾽ ὁμίλου” Il.5.353, cf. 4.516, etc. ; πρώτῳ ἐν ὁ. in the forefront of battle, 17.471 : generally, tumult, confusion, “βοῇ καὶ ὁμίλῳ” Hdt.9.59 ; “σοφίῃ καὶ μὴ βίῃ καὶ ὁ.” Id.3.127.—The word seems not to be used in pl.