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ὁμα^λ-ός , ή, όν, (ὁμός, ἅμα) of a surface,
A.even, level, “οἱ δ᾽ ὁμαλὸν ποίησαν” Od.9.327 : freq. in Prose, opp. τραχύς, X.An.4.6.12, cf. SIG996.32 (Smyrna), etc. ; ἐν τῷ ὁ., ἐς τὸ ὁ., on (to) level ground, Th.5.65, X. An.4.2.16 : Sup. “-ώτατον” Th.4.31, cf. Hp.Aër.13 ; λεῖον καὶ ὁ . . . σῶμα ἐποίησε smooth and even, Pl.Ti.34b.
2. uniform in consistency, of a sediment, Hp.Prog.12, cf. Judic.3, Gal.9.605.
3. of sound, “φωνὴ ὁ. καὶ λεία” Pl.Ti.67b, cf. Arist.HA581a19.
4. even, equable, “κατάτασις δικαίη καὶ ὁ.” Hp.Fract.30 ; of motion, Arist.Ph.223a1, etc. ; “δίνη” Epicur.Ep.2p.53U.; τὸ ὁ. καὶ σύμμετρον, opp. τὸ ἄκρατον, Pl.Lg. 773a ; τὸ ὁ. consistency, of ἦθος, Arist.Po.1454a26. Adv. -λῶς, ἀνώμαλος regularly irregular, ib.a27.
5. of circumstances, on a level, equal, “-ώτεραι ἂν αἱ οὐσίαι εἶεν” Id.Pol.1309a25 ; ὁ. ὁ γάμος marriage with an equal, A.Pr.901 (lyr.) ; “ὁ. ἔρωτες” Theoc.12.10 ; ἀλλάλοις ὁμαλοί on a level with one another, equal, Id.15.50, cf. Erinn.4.2 ; “ὁ. βίος” IG14.463. Adv. -λῶς, ἡ δίαιθ᾽ ὁ. διάκειται is equable, Critias 6.25.
6. not remarkable, middling, average, ὁ. στρατιώτης an ordinary sort of soldier, Theoc.14.56.
II. Adv. ὁμαλῶς (cf. supr. 1.4,5) evenly, “ἀλείφειν καὶ περιστέλλειν ὁ.” Hp.Acut.17 ; ὁ. βαίνειν march in an even line, Th.5.70 ; “ὁ. προϊέναι” X.An.1.8.14 ; ὁ. ῥίπτειν, σπείρειν, Id.Oec.17.7, 20.3 ; “κινεῖσθαι” Arist.Ph.238a21, cf. Epicur.Ep.2pp.49,51 U. ; “εὐφραίνεσθαι” Id.Sent.Vat.48.
2. on terms of equalily, “ὁ. βιῶναι” Isoc.4.151 ; πραγμάτων ὁ. πάντων of all alike, Plu.Per.6 ; πάντες ὁ. ib.10, etc. ; “ὁ. πανταχοῦ” Damox.2.30.—Cf. ὁμαλής.
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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