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ὁμα^λ-ός , ή, όν, (ὁμός, ἅμα) of a surface,
A.even, level,οἱ δ᾽ ὁμαλὸν ποίησανOd.9.327 : freq. in Prose, opp. τραχύς, X.An.4.6.12, cf. SIG996.32 (Smyrna), etc. ; ἐν τῷ ., ἐς τὸ ., on (to) level ground, Th.5.65, X. An.4.2.16 : Sup. “-ώτατονTh.4.31, cf. Hp.Aër.13 ; λεῖον καὶ . . . σῶμα ἐποίησε smooth and even, Pl.Ti.34b.
2. uniform in consistency, of a sediment, Hp.Prog.12, cf. Judic.3, Gal.9.605.
3. of sound, “φωνὴ . καὶ λείαPl.Ti.67b, cf. Arist.HA581a19.
4. even, equable,κατάτασις δικαίη καὶ .Hp.Fract.30 ; of motion, Arist.Ph.223a1, etc. ; “δίνηEpicur.Ep.2p.53U.; τὸ . καὶ σύμμετρον, opp. τὸ ἄκρατον, Pl.Lg. 773a ; τὸ . consistency, of ἦθος, Arist.Po.1454a26. Adv. -λῶς, ἀνώμαλος regularly irregular, ib.a27.
5. of circumstances, on a level, equal,-ώτεραι ἂν αἱ οὐσίαι εἶενId.Pol.1309a25 ; . γάμος marriage with an equal, A.Pr.901 (lyr.) ; “. ἔρωτεςTheoc.12.10 ; ἀλλάλοις ὁμαλοί on a level with one another, equal, Id.15.50, cf. Erinn.4.2 ; “. βίοςIG14.463. Adv. -λῶς, δίαιθ᾽ . διάκειται is equable, Critias 6.25.
6. not remarkable, middling, average, . στρατιώτης an ordinary sort of soldier, Theoc.14.56.
II. Adv. ὁμαλῶς (cf. supr. 1.4,5) evenly,ἀλείφειν καὶ περιστέλλειν .Hp.Acut.17 ; . βαίνειν march in an even line, Th.5.70 ; “. προϊέναιX.An.1.8.14 ; . ῥίπτειν, σπείρειν, Id.Oec.17.7, 20.3 ; “κινεῖσθαιArist.Ph.238a21, cf. Epicur.Ep.2pp.49,51 U. ; “εὐφραίνεσθαιId.Sent.Vat.48.
2. on terms of equalily,. βιῶναιIsoc.4.151 ; πραγμάτων . πάντων of all alike, Plu.Per.6 ; πάντες . ib.10, etc. ; “. πανταχοῦDamox.2.30.—Cf. ὁμαλής.
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    • Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 901
    • Aristotle, Poetics, 1454a.26
    • Isocrates, Panegyricus, 151
    • Plato, Laws, 773a
    • Plato, Timaeus, 34b
    • Plato, Timaeus, 67b
    • Thucydides, Histories, 5.65
    • Thucydides, Histories, 5.70
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 1.8.14
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 4.2.16
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 4.6.12
    • Xenophon, Economics, 17.7
    • Xenophon, Economics, 20.3
    • Homer, Odyssey, 9.327
    • Theocritus, Idylls, 5
    • Hippocrates, De diaeta in morbis acutis, 17
    • Hippocrates, De fracturis, 30
    • Hippocrates, Prognosticon, 12
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.31
    • Plutarch, Pericles, 10
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