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ὄχλος , ὁ,
A.crowd, throng, Pi.P.4.85, A.Pers.42 (anap.), etc.; “ἐσὄχλον ἕρπειν παρθένοισιν οὐ καλόν” E.Or.108, cf. Heracl.44; ὁ ὄ. τῶν στρατιωτῶν the mass of the soldiers, X.Cyr.6.1.26, cf. Th.6.64, 7.62; “μηδένα ὄ. Πελοποννησίων νεῶν” Id.2.88; ὄχλῳ in numbers (for an army), Id.1.80; “ὁ μισθοφόρος ὄ.” Id.3.109, cf.4.56; οἱ τοιοῦτοι ὄ. undisciplined masses like these, ib.126; “ὄ. μᾶλλον ἢ στρατός” Hdn.6.7.1; of the camp-followers, X.An.3.4.26, 4.3.26, etc.
2. in political sense, populace, mob, opp. δῆμος (people), Th.7.8, cf. Pl.Plt.304d; “πρὸς ὄχλον ζῶν” Id.Ax.368d; “οἱ ὁμότιμοι ὤκνουν τὴν τοῦ ὄ. ἰσομοιρίαν” X.Cyr.2.2.21; δικαστηρίων καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ὄ. and popular assemblies (in a contemptuous sense), Pl.Grg.455a, cf. Euthd.290a: prov., δι᾽ ὄχλου ἤδη τοῦτό γε this is already in the mouths of the people, D.H.Lys.10, cf. J.BJ2.13.1, 4.9.2.
3. generally, mass, multitude, “ὄ. τὸν πλεῖστον λόγων” A.Pr. 827; “τὸν πλεῖστον ὄ. τῶν πραχθέντων” Isoc.12.192; ἵππων ὄ. E.IA191 (lyr.); “ἄκριτος ἄστρων ὄ.” Critias 19.5 D.; “σαρκῶν” Pl.Ti.75e: in pl., the masses, “καχεξία τις ὑποδέδυκε τοὺς ὄχλους” Diph.24.4, cf. Men.161.1, 466.4; “πιθανώτεροι οἱ ἀπαίδευτοι ἐν τοῖς ὄ.” Arist.Rh.1395b28.
II. annoyance, trouble, “σχολὴν ὄ. τε μέτριον” E.Ion635, etc.; ὄχλον παρέχειν to give trouble, Hdt.1.86, cf. E.Med.337, X.An.3.2.27, Pl.Phd. 84d; δι᾽ ὄχλου εἶναι, γενέσθαι, to be or become troublesome, Ar.Ec.888, Th.1.73, Pl.Alc.1.103a; “μάταιον ὄ. τοὺς λόγους νομίσητε” D.18.214; “οἱ δὲ ἀντιλέγοντες ὄ. ἄλλως καὶ βασκανία κατεφαίνετο” Id.19.24.
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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