ὅμηρα (homera)

ὅμηρα is an Ancient Greek form of ὅμηρος, meaning “hostage”. It is the nominative plural neuter noun.

Found 75 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Nicias 27.2: … ὴν ἐκείνου τοῦ στρατεύματος ἅλωσιν, ἠξίου σπείσασθαι πρὸς τὸν Γύλιππον, ὅπως ἀφῶσι τοὺς Ἀθηναίους ἐκ Σικελίας ὅμηρα λαβόντες ὑπὲρ τῶν χρημάτων ὅσα Συρακουσίοις ἀνάλωτο πρὸς τὸν πόλεμον.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 3.28.6: φέρε δὴ τί μετὰ ταῦτα ἐποιήσαμεν; ἐξὸν ἡμῖν ὅμηρά τε αὐτῶν λαβεῖν καὶ φρουρὰν ἐν τῇ πόλει καταλιπεῖν καὶ τοὺς κορυφαιοτάτους τῶν διαστησάντων τὰς πόλεις τοὺς μ …

All forms of ὅμηρος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.