The corpus record

ὁμῆλιξ

omelix · ὁ

of the same age

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Where it lives

Works and Days 2 · 3.47/10k
Acharnians 1 · 1.41/10k
Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
Odyssey 4 · 0.46/10k
Histories 2 · 0.11/10k
Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

ὁμῆλιξ · homēlix — LSJ

of the same age

of the same age, mostly of young persons, Od. 15.197, 16.419, Hes. Op. 444, 447, Hdt. 1.99, E. Hipp. 1098, etc. ; of things, παραδοχὰς . . ὁμήλικας χρόνῳ Id. Ba. 201.

2 equal in age, comrade

as Subst., equal in age, comrade, νίψον σοῖο ἄνακτος ὁμήλικα (of an elderly man) Od. 19.358 ; δάμαρτος τῆς ἐμῆς ὁ. E. Alc. 953.

II of like stature

of like stature, Luc. Pr.Im. 13 : neut., ὁμήλικα ζῷα Apollon. Mir. 17.

In the wild

ὁμήλικα · homēlika Aristophanes, Acharnians 1.336 (DIORISIS sentence 260)
ὁμήλικας · homēlikas Euripides, Bacchae 201–203
ὁμηλίκων · homēlikōn Euripides, Trojan Women *(eka/bh.1180 (DIORISIS sentence 588)
ὁμήλικας · homēlikas Herodotus, Histories 1.42.1 (DIORISIS sentence 288)
ὁμήλικες · homēlikes Herodotus, Histories 1.99.2 (DIORISIS sentence 730)
ὁμήλικας · homēlikas Works and Days 441–444

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Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ὁμῆλιξ (scan p. 1127; entry #4546).
Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ὁμῆλιξ (scan p. 814; entry #5907).

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