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ὁμωνυ^μ-ία , ἡ,
A.a having the same name, verbal identity, Epicur.Nat. 2.9, AP6.100 (Crin.), Plu.2.427e : pl., Str.13.1.21.
II. fraudulent use of an identity of name, POxy.257.44 (i A.D.), 1266.36 (i A.D.).
III. of words, equivocal sense, ambiguity, “παρὰ τὴν ὁ.” Arist. SE165b30 ; “καθ᾽ ὁμωνυμίαν” equivocally, Id.AP0.85b11 : pl., “ταῖσ-ίαις πλανῶνται” Phld.Sign.36.
2. an equivocal word, τῶν ὀνομάτων τῷ μὲν σοφιστῇ ὁμωνυμίαι χρήσιμοι . . , τῷ ποιητῇ δὲ συνωνυμίαι (q.v.) Arist. Rh.1404b38.
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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