LOGOI

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ὁμοιόω

omoioo

make like, makes, correspond

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 45 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ὁμοι-όω · homoi-oō — LSJ

make like, makes, correspond, to be made like, become like

make like, ὁμοιώσασʼ ἐμοὶ εἴδωλον ἔμπνουν E. Hel. 33 ; πᾶν παντὶ ὁ. Pl. Phdr. 261e ; ἑαυτὸν ἄλλῳ Id. R. 393c ; χοῦν . . -ώσαντες τῷ ἄλλῳ χώρῳ Hdt. 8.28 ; τοῖς πεπλασμένοις καὶ τοῖς γεγραμμένοις τὴν τοῦ σώματος φύσιν Isoc. 9.75 ; ἑαυτῷ τι Arist. GC 324a10 ; πρὸς τὰ παρόντα τὰς ὀργὰς τῶν πολλῶν ὁ. makes them correspond to prevailing conditions, Th. 3.82 :—Pass., to be made like, become like, in Hom. only in aor. inf. Pass., ὁμοιωθήμεναι ἄντην Il. 1.187, Od. 3.120 ; ὁμοιωθέντʼ Ἀφροδίτῃ Emp. 22.5 ;

2 liken, compare

liken, compare, in Med., τὰς πάθας τὰς Κύρου τῇσι ἑωυτοῦ -ούμενος Hdt. 1.123 :—later in Act., τίνι ὁμοιώσω τὴν γενεὰν ταύτην; Ev.Matt. 11.16 ; ἡ πόλις τινὰ Λυκούργῳ κατὰ τὸ ἦθος καὶ τὴν πρᾶξιν ὁμοιοῦσα BSA 29.35 (Sparta, iv A. D.).

II to be like

intr., to be like, interpol. in Dsc. 3.45.

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