ὅμιλος

ὅμῑλ-ος, [dialect] Aeol. [full] ὄμιλλος EM658.55 : ὁ : ([etym.] ὁμός, ἴλη)

A any assembled crowd, throng of people, for a feast, Od.1.225 ; for a spectacle, Il.18.603,23.651, cf. Pi.P.9.123, al., A.Pers.123, al., E.Cyc.100, al., Hdt. (v. infr.) : rare in [dialect] Att. Com. and Prose, as Cratin.323, Th.2.65, 4.112 ; esp. the mass of the people, the crowd, opp. the chiefs,

προπάροιθεν ὁμίλου Il.3.22

; ὅ. Δαναῶν, Τρώων, etc., 19.402,4.86, al. ;

ἵππων καὶ ἀνδρῶν ὅ. 10.338

; τὸν ψιλὸν ὅ. the crowd of irregulars, opp. ὁπλῖται, Th.4.125 ; mob,

διδασκάλῳ χρείωνται ὁμίλῳ Heraclit.104

;

ὁ πολλὸς ὅ. Hdt.1.88

, cf. 3.81 ;

τυφλὸν δ' ἔχει ἦτορ ὅ. ἀνδρῶν ὁ πλεῖστος Pi.N.7.24

; but also ὅ. πολλὸς μὲν Ἕλλην περιοικέει a large Hellenic population, Hdt.5.23.

b of inanimate objects,

[σῆμα] οὔ τι μεμιγμένον ἐστὶν ὁμίλῳ Od.8.196

.

2 throng of battle,

τὴν ἔξαγ' ὁμίλου Il.5.353

, cf. 4.516, etc. ; πρώτῳ ἐν ὁ. in the forefront of battle, 17.471 : generally, tumult, confusion,

βοῇ καὶ ὁμίλῳ Hdt.9.59

;

σοφίῃ καὶ μὴ βίῃ καὶ ὁ. Id.3.127

.—The word seems not to be used in pl.