a game, party, circle
a game in which nuts, etc., were thrown into a ring (εἰς ὤμιλλαν Poll. 9.102): hence metaph. of a party, circle, εἰς ὤ. ἀριστήσομεν Eup. 250; εἴσειμʼ εἰς ὤ. Id. 288.
The corpus record
ὤμιλλα
omilla · ἡ
a game, party, circle
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What it meant — LSJ
Where it came from
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