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ὁμώνυ^μ-ος , ον, (ὁμός, ὄνομα : ὁμόνυμος is a misspelling in Ant.Lib.34.5)
A.having the same name, Il.17.720, Pi.I.7(6).24, etc. ; τινι with one, Th.2.68, Pl.R.330b, etc. ; τὸν ὁ. ἐμαυτῷ my own namesake, D.3.21, cf. Isoc. 11.10.
II. Subst., “ὁ. τινός” Pi.Fr.105, Hdt.3.67, Pl.Sph.218b, 234b ; ὁ σαυτοῦ ὁ. your namesake, Id.Prt.311b ; “ὁ σὸς ὁ.” Id.Tht.147d ; “ἡ ὁ. αὐτῆς” Luc.Im.20.
III. of like kind, “πάντα τὰ ἐκείνοις ὁ.” Pl. Phd.78e, cf. Prm.133d.
IV. in the Logic of Arist., τὰ ὁ. are things having the same name but different natures and definitions, things denoted by equivocal or ambiguous words, Cat.1a1, cf. EN1096b27. Adv. -μως equivocally, ib.1129a30, de An.412b14, al., cf. Thphr. CP1.22.1.
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 (14):
    • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1129a.30
    • Demosthenes, Olynthiac 3, 21
    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.67
    • Homer, Iliad, 17.720
    • Isocrates, Busiris, 10
    • Plato, Republic, 330b
    • Plato, Phaedo, 78e
    • Plato, Sophist, 218b
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 147d
    • Plato, Sophist, 234b
    • Plato, Parmenides, 133d
    • Plato, Protagoras, 311b
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.68
    • Lucian, Imagines, 20
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