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 Att. Com. and Prose, as Cratin.323, Th.2.65, 4.112; esp.
the mass of the people, the crowd,
opp. the chiefs, προπάροιθεν ὁμίλουIl.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 ὁμίλῳHeraclit.104; ὁ πολλὸς ὅ.Hdt.1.88, cf. 3.81; τυφλὸν δ' ἔχει ἦτορ ὅ. ἀνδρῶν ὁ πλεῖστοσPi.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 ὁμίλῳOd.8.196. 2.
throng
of battle, τὴν ἔξαγ' ὁμίλουIl.5.353, cf. 4.516, etc.; πρώτῳ ἐν ὁ. in the forefront of
battle,
17.471: generally,
tumult, confusion,
βοῇ καὶ ὁμίλῳHdt.9.59; σοφίῃ καὶ μὴ βίῃ καὶ ὁ.Id.3.127.— The word seems not to be used in pl.