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ἡμιόλιος

ἡμιόλιος, containing 1.5, 150%, vessel with a bank and a half of rowers

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ἡμιόλιʼ neuter nominative plural, neuter vocative plural, neuter accusative plural, masculine vocative singular, feminine nominative plural, feminine vocative plural of ἡμιόλιος

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ἡμιόλ-ιος, α, ον, hyperdor. ἁμ-, ον, (ὅλος)
  • containing one and a half, half as much or as large again, Pl. Tht. 154c; περίμετρος Plb. 6.32.7; ηὔξησε τὰ δόρατα ἡμιολίῳ μεγέθει D.S. 15.44: c. gen., τὰς περόνας ἡμιολίας . . τοῦ τότε κατεστεῶτος μέτρου half as large again as . ., Hdt. 5.88; [γωνία] ἁμιόλιος τᾶς μέσας Ti.Locr. 98a; [ὁ γνήσιος ἀετὸς] ἡ. τῶν ἀετῶν Arist. HA 619a13; neut., half as much again, ἡμιόλιον οὗ πρότερον ἔφερον X. An. 1.3.21; ἡμιόλιον ὀφλέτω ὅ τι συλάσαι let him be fined half as much again as the amount he seized, IG 9(1).333.5 (Locr., v B.C.); of numbers, half as many again, ποιήσας ἡμιολίους τοὺς ναύτας ἢ πρόσθεν Plb. 10.17.12.
    • II in the ratio of one and a half to one (3:2), as in musical sounds, ἡμιολίαι διαστάσεις Pl. Ti. 36a; τὸ διʼ ὀξειᾶν ἡ. Philol. 6; ἡ ἡμιολία this ratio, τὴν ἡ. τοῦ τιμήματος Pl. Lg. 956d; ἀποτίνειν τὴν φέρνην σὺν τῇ ἡ. Mitteis Chr. 280.15 (ii B.C.). Adv. -ίως Nicom. Ar. 2.20, Procl. in Ti. 2.223 D.
    • III ἡμιολία ναῦς a light vessel with one and a half banks of oars, D.S. 19.65; also ἡμιολία alone, Thphr. Char. 25.2, D.S. 16.61, Mus.Belg. 14.20 (but -ίους Plb. 5.101.2, -ιον Hsch.), etc.; used by pirates, Thphr. Char. l.c.; ἡ. λῃστρικαί Arr. An. 3.2.5, etc.; expld. by δίκροτος (q.v.) ναῦς, Hsch.
    • IV τροχαϊκὸς ἡ. (sc. στίχος) trochaic verse consisting of a metre and a half, Heph. 15.2.

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