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I. prop. of flesh, raw, uncooked, Il.22.347, al.; opp. ὀπταλέος, Od.12.396; ὠμὸν καταφαγεῖν τινα or ὠμοῦ ἐσθίειν τινός to eat one raw, prov. of savage cruelty, X.An.4.8.14, HG3.3.6; so “ὠμὸν βεβρώθοις Πρίαμον” Il.4.35, cf. Od.18.87, etc.

2. of eggs, Thphr. Vert.2; of vegetables, “μύκητας ὠμοὺς . . φαγεῖν” Antiph.188; “κριθαί” Luc.Asin.17; cf. ὠμήλυσις.

3. of water, crude, opp. ἄπεφθος, Alex.198; also of milk, Arist.Mete.380b8.

4. of fruit, uncooked by the sun, unripe, opp. πέπων, Ar.Eq.260 (troch.), cf. X.Oec.19.19 (Comp.), Arist.Mete.380b7.

5. of pitch, opp. ἑφθή, Gp.6.5.5, cf. Plb.5.89.6; of pottery, unbaked, “χύτραι” Dsc.1.68, Gp.10.21.1; “κέραμος ὠμός” Arist.Mete.380b8, cf. GA743a9: even of soil which needs to be exposed to the sun, “ὡς ἡ ὠμὴ αὐτῆς ὀπτῷτο” X.Oec.16.15.

6. of food, undigested, Anon.Lond.25.7, al., Plu.2.131c, 133d; of a person, suffering from indigestion, Philostr.Gym.54; also οὖρα, ὑποχωρήσεις, κατάρροι, Arist.Mete.380b5.

II. metaph., savage, fierce, cruel, [“δεσπόται] ὠμοί τε δούλοις” A.Ag.1045; “ὠ. φρόνημα” Id.Th.536; “ὠμῇ ξὺν ὀργῇ” Id.Supp.187; “δαίμων” S.OT828; “τὰ . . Ἀγαμέμνονος κλύεις ὠμὰ καὶ πάντολμ᾽” E.IA913 (troch.); “ὠμὸς ἔς τινα” Id.Hipp.1264; and so in Prose, “ὠμὸν τὸ βούλευμα . . ἐγνῶσθαι” Th. 3.36; οὕτως ὠμὴ <ἡ> στάσις προὐχώρησε ib.82; “θηρευταὶ ὠμοὶ καὶ ἄνομοι” Pl.Lg.823e; ὠμὴ ψυχή ib.718d; “χαλεπὸς καὶ ὠ.” X.An.2.6.12; “τὸν οὕτως ὠμόν, τὸν οὕτως ἀγνώμονα” D.21.97; ὠμοὶ χρόνοι hard times, IG3.1372 (metr.). Adv., “ὠμῶς καὶ ἀπαραιτήτως” Th.3.[84], cf. X. Vect.5.6; “ὠ. καὶ σχετλίως ἔχειν” Isoc.19.31; “ὠ. καὶ πικρῶς” D.29.2; “ὠ. ἀποκτείνειν” Lys.13.63 codd. ὁμοίως Lipsius): Sup., “ὠμότατα διακεῖσθαι πρός τινα” Isoc.9.49.

2. harsh, rough, cruel, “νόμοι” S.Aj.548; “δηλοῖ τὸ γέννημ᾽ ὠμὸν ἐξ ὠμοῦ πατρός” Id.Ant.471; πῶς ἂν ὠμότερος συκοφάντης γενοιτ᾽; a more coarse, more unmitigated sycophant, D.18.212. Adv. ὠμῶς rudely, coarsely, παρελθεῖν ὠ. καὶ ἀναιδῶς ib. 285.

3. (from 1.4) ὠμὸν γῆρας an unripe, premature old age, Od. 15.357, Hes.Op.705 (but ὠμότατον καὶ ἀγριώτατον γῆρας in signf. 11.1, Plu.Mar.2), cf. ὠμογέρων : ὠμὸς τόκος an untimely birth, Philostr. VS2.1.8. (Cf. Skt. āmás 'raw, uncooked'.)

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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