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ὁμό-πτερος , ον,
A.of or with the same plumage, “κίρκος” A.Supp.224, cf. Pl.Phdr.256e ; οἱ ἐμοὶ ὁ. my fellow-birds, birds of my feather, Ar.Av.229 : then generally, comrades, fellows, Stratt.78.
2. metaph., of like feather, closely resembling, “βόστρυχος ὁ.” A.Ch.174, cf. E.El.530 ; νᾶες ὁ. consort-ships (or, as others, equally swift), A.Pers.559 (lyr., but λινόπτεροι is prob. cj.); ἀπήνα ὁ., i.e. the two brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, E.Ph.328(lyr.).
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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    • Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, 174
    • Aeschylus, Persians, 559
    • Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens, 224
    • Aristophanes, Birds, 229
    • Euripides, Electra, 530
    • Euripides, Phoenician Women, 328
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