Ὁμήρου (Homerou)

Ὁμήρου is an Ancient Greek form of ὅμηρος, meaning “hostage”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

It can also be a form of Ὅμηρος, “Homeros — Homer, the epic poet of the Iliad and Odyssey”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 340 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.10.3: … ὰς δυνάμεις, νομίζειν δὲ τὴν στρατείαν ἐκείνην μεγίστην μὲν γενέσθαι τῶν πρὸ αὑτῆς, λειπομένην δὲ τῶν νῦν, τῇ Ὁμήρου αὖ ποιήσει εἴ τι χρὴ κἀνταῦθα πιστεύειν, ἣν εἰκὸς ἐπὶ τὸ μεῖζον μὲν ποιητὴν ὄντα κοσμῆσαι, ὅμως δὲ φαίνεται κ …

Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.2.58: τὸ δὲ Ὀμήρου ἔφη ὁ κατήγορος πολλάκις αὐτὸν λέγειν, ὅτι Ὀδυσσεὺς ὅντινα μὲν βασιλῆα καὶ ἔξοχον ἄνδρα κιχείη, τὸν δʼ ἀγανοῖ …

Julian, Emperor of Rome, Epistolae 29.1: … μὰ τοὺς θεούς, καὶ μὴ νομίσῃς ἀκκισμὸν εἶναι μηδὲ παιδιὰν τὸ πρᾶγμα. μαρτύρομαι τοὺς λογίους θεούς, ὅτι πλὴν Ὁμηρου καὶ Πλάτωνος οὐκ ἀκολουθεῖ μοι πυκτίον οὔτε φιλόσοφον οὔτε ῥητορικὸν οὔτε γραμματικὸν οὔθ’ ἱστορία τις τῶν ἐν …

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.