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ὁμι_λ-ία , Ion. -ιη, ἡ,
A.intercourse, company, “ἔσθ᾽ ὁμιλίας κακῆς κάκιον οὐδέν” A.Th.599 ; “τὸ ξυγγενές τοι δεινὸν ἡ θ᾽ ὁ.” Id.Pr.39, etc. ; ὁ. τινός communion or intercourse with one, Hdt.4.174 ; “πρός τινα” S.Ph.70, Pl.Smp.203a, al. ; τοὺς ἀξίους δὲ τῆς ἐμῆς ὁ. of my society, Ar.Pl.776 ; “ἡ σὴ ὁ.” Pl.Hp.Ma.283d ; ὁ. χθονός intercourse with a country, E.Ph.1408 ; ἔχειν ἐν θεοῖς ὁ. live among them, Id.IA[1622] ; “ἥκειν εἰς ὁ. τινί” S.OT1489 ; ἡ καθ᾽ ὑμᾶς αὐτοὺς πολιτεία καὶ ὁ. public and private life, Th.1.68 ; ἐξ ὁμιλίας by persuasion, opp. βίᾳ, D.Ep.1.12 : also in pl., “ἀνθρώπων κακῶν-ίαι” Hdt.7.16.α᾽, cf. Epict.Ench.33.14, etc. ; “φθείρουσιν ἤθη χρήσθ᾽ ὁ. κακαί” E.Fr. 1024 (= Men.218) ; Ἑλληνικαὶ ὁ. association with Greeks, Hdt.4.77 ; “ἐνδίκοις ὁ.” A.Eu.966 (lyr.) ; αἱ . . συγγενεῖς ὁ. intercourse with kinsfolk, E.Tr.51 ; “ὁ. κακαῖς χρῆσθαι” Pl.R.550b ; “αἱ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ὁ. καὶ αἱ τῶν πραγμάτων” Arist.Pol.1336b32, etc.
2. sexual intercourse, Hdt.1.182, X.Smp.8.22, Mem.3.11.14, etc. ; “νυμφικαὶ ὁ.” E.Hel. 1400 ; “ὁ. τῶν ἀφροδισίων” Arist.HA582a26 ; ἡ πρὸς τοὺς ἄρρενας or τῶν ἀρρένων ὁ., Id.Pol.1272a24, 1269b29.
3. instruction, X. Mem.1.2.6 and 15 ; lecture, Ael.VH3.19 : in pl., title of work by Critias, Gal.18(2).656.
4. ὁμιλέειν ὁμιλίῃ to be versed in it by practice, opp. λόγῳ εἰδέναι, Hp.Art.10.
5. ἡ πλείστη ὁ. τοῦ ὀνόματος its commonest usage, Epicur.Ep.1p.22U. ; so ὁμιλίαι φωνῆς, αἱ τῶν λέξεων ὁ., Phld.Rh.1.288 S., Oec.p.59J. ; αἱ κοιναὶ ὁ. common usage, S.E.M.1.1 ; τῶν ἰδιωτῶν -ίαι ib.64 ; “ἡ ἀνὰ χεῖρα -ία” A.D.Synt. 37.2 ; “ἡ κοινὴ καλουμένη καὶ ἀνὰ χεῖρα -ία” Hermog.Id.2.7.
II. association, company, “ἀνδρῶν τῶν ἀρίστων ἐπιλέξαντες ὁμιλίην” Hdt.3.81, cf. A.Eu.57.
2. in collect. sense, τήνδ᾽ ὁμιλίαν χθονός these fellow-sojourners in the land, ib.406 ; ναὸς κοινόπλους ὁ. ship-mates, S.Aj.872 ; “ἀδελφῶν ἡ παροῦσ᾽ ὁ.” E.Heracl.581, cf. Hipp.19 (dub. l.).
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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