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ἡμέτερος , Dor. ἁμέτ- , Aeol. ἀμμέτ- , α, ον, (ἡμεῖς)
A.our, Il.2.374, etc.; εἰς ἡμέτερον (sc. δῶμα) Od.2.55, 17.534; so “ἡμέτερόνδε” 8.39, 15.513; ἐφ᾽ ἡμέτερ' ib.88, Il.9.619; “ἐν ἡμετέρου” Hdt.1.35, 7.8.δ́; ἡ ἡ. (sc. χώρα) Th.6.21, etc.; τὸ ἡ. our case, Pl.Ti.27d; “τὸ ἡ. γέλωτ᾽ ἂν πάμπολυν ὄφλοι” Id.Lg.778e, etc.; τὰ ἡ. φρονεῖν to take our part, X. HG6.3.14, etc.; ἄνδρες ἡ. they are in our power, Pl.R.556d, cf. X. Cyr.2.3.2; ἡ. κέρδη τῶν σοφῶν,= ἡμῶν τῶν σοφῶν, Ar.Nu.1202; ἡμέτερον αὐτῶν [οἰκοδόμημα],= ἡμῶν αὐτῶν, Pl.Grg.514b; representing an objective gen., τὸ ἡ. δέος fear of us, Th.1.77; “εἰς τὴν ἡ. διδασκαλίαν” Ep.Rom.15.4.
II. sts. for ἐμός, Od.11.562, al., Theoc.2.31, etc.; τὰ ἡ. my property, PRyl.114.18 (iii A.D.); so in Imperial titles, as “ἡ ἡ. ἡμερότης” Just.Nov.115Pr.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (19):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.35
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.8
    • Homer, Iliad, 2.374
    • Homer, Iliad, 9.619
    • Homer, Odyssey, 11.562
    • Homer, Odyssey, 15.513
    • Homer, Odyssey, 17.534
    • Homer, Odyssey, 2.55
    • Homer, Odyssey, 8.39
    • New Testament, Romans, 15.4
    • Plato, Laws, 778e
    • Plato, Republic, 556d
    • Plato, Gorgias, 514b
    • Plato, Timaeus, 27d
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.77
    • Thucydides, Histories, 6.21
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 2.3.2
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 6.3.14
    • Aristophanes, Clouds, 1202
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