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ὁμό-χροια

omochroia · ἡ

sameness of colour

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Where it lives

On Hunting 1 · 1.1/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

ὁμό-χροια · homo-chroia — LSJ

sameness of colour

sameness of colour, X. Cyn. 5.18, Arist. Mete. 342b20, Gp. 18.1.1.

II even surface of the body, skin

even surface of the body, skin, Hdt. 1.74 (acc. ὁμοχροίην or -χροιίην); so ὁμοχροίη, of inner and outer surfaces of skull, Hp. VC 1 ; of surface of eye, Id. Carn. 17 : metaph., οὐδὲ ἅπτεται ταῦτα τῆς ὁμοχροίας Pl. Ax. 369d.

In the wild

ὁμοχροίην · homochroiēn Herodotus, Histories 1.74.5 (DIORISIS sentence 512)
ὁμόχροιαν · homochroian Xenophon, On Hunting 5.18 (DIORISIS sentence 182)

Where it came from

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