ὁμῑλ-ία,
Ion. -ιη, ἡ,
I
1. intercourse, company, ἔσθ’ ὁμιλίας κακῆς κάκιον οὐδέν A. Th. 599; τὸ ξυγγενές τοι δεινὸν ἡ θ’ ὁ. Id. Pr. 39, etc.; ὁ. τινός communion or intercourse with one, Hdt. 4.174; πρός τινα S. Ph. 70, Pl. Smp. 203a, al.; τοὺς ἀξίους δὲ τῆς ἐμῆς ὁ. of my society, Ar. Pl. 776; ἡ σὴ ὁ. Pl. Hp.Ma. 283d; ὁ. χθονός intercourse with a country, E. Ph. 1408; ἔχειν ἐν θεοῖς ὁ. live among them, Id. IA [1622]; ἥκειν εἰς ὁ. τινί S. OT 1489; ἡ καθ’ ὑμᾶς αὐτοὺς πολιτεία καὶ ὁ. public and private life, Th. 1.68; ἐξ ὁμιλίας by persuasion, opp. βίᾳ, D. [Eph 1:12]: also in pl., ἀνθρώπων κακῶν-ίαι Hdt. 7.16. α’, cf. Epict. Ench. 33.14, etc.; φθείρουσιν ἤθη χρήσθ’ ὁ. κακαί E. Fr. 1024 (= Men. 218); Ἑλληνικαὶ ὁ. association with Greeks, Hdt. 4.77; ἐνδίκοις ὁ. A. Eu. 966 (lyr.); αἱ.. συγγενεῖς ὁ. intercourse with kinsfolk, E. Tr. 51; ὁ. κακαῖς χρῆσθαι Pl. R. 550b; αἱ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ὁ. καὶ αἱ τῶν πραγμάτων Arist. Pol. 1336b32, etc.
2. sexual intercourse, Hdt. 1.182, X. Smp. 8.22, Mem. 3.11.14, etc.; νυμφικαὶ ὁ. E. Hel. 1400; ὁ. τῶν ἀφροδισίων Arist. HA 582a26; ἡ πρὸς τοὺς ἄρρενας or τῶν ἀρρένων ὁ., Id. Pol. 1272a24, 1269b29.
3. instruction, X. Mem. 1.2.6 and 15; lecture, Ael. VH 3.19: in pl., title of work by Critias, Gal. 18(2).656.
4. ὁμιλέειν ὁμιλίῃ to be versed in it by practice, opp. λόγῳ εἰδέναι, Hp. Art. 10.
5. ἡ πλείστη ὁ. τοῦ ὀνόματος its commonest usage, Epicur. Ephesians 1 p.22U.; so ὁμιλίαι φωνῆς, αἱ τῶν λέξεων ὁ., Phld. Rh. 1.288 S., Oec. p.59J.; αἱ κοιναὶ ὁ. common usage, S.E. M. 1.1; τῶν ἰδιωτῶν -ίαι ib. 64; ἡ ἀνὰ χεῖρα -ία A.D. Synt. 37.2; ἡ κοινὴ καλουμένη καὶ ἀνὰ χεῖρα -ία Hermog. Id. 2.7.
II
1. association, company, ἀνδρῶν τῶν ἀρίστων ἐπιλέξαντες ὁμιλίην Hdt. 3.81, cf. A. Eu. 57.
2. in collect. sense, τήνδ’ ὁμιλίαν χθονός these fellow-sojourners in the land, ib. 406; ναὸς κοινόπλους ὁ. ship- mates, S. Aj. 872; ἀδελφῶν ἡ παροῦσ’ ὁ. E. Heracl. 581, cf. Hipp. 19 (dub. l.).
G3657 — ὁμιλία
ὁμιλίας, ἡ (ὅμιλος), companionship, contact, communion: [1Co 15:33], on which see ἦθος. (Tragg., Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, and following.)