ὅμοιος ὅμοιος, ορ Ionic and old Attic ὁμοῖος, η, ον like, resembling, Lat. similis, Hom., etc.; proverb., τὸν ὁμοῖον ἄγει θεὸς ὡς τὸν ὁμοῖον "birds of a feather flock together, " Od.; so, ὁ ὅμοιος τῷ ὁμοίῳ Plat.:—comp. ὁμοιότερος more like, Plat.; Sup. -ότατος most like, Hdt., Soph., etc. = ὁ αὐτός, the same, Hom.; ἓν καὶ ὅμ. one and the same, Plat.; ὁμοῖον ἡμῖν ἔσται it will be all one to us, Lat. perinde erit, Hdt.; σὺ δʼ αἰνεῖν εἴτε με ψέγειν θέλεις, ὁμοῖον Aesch. shared alike by both, common, ὁμ. πόλεμος war in which each takes part, Hom.; γῆρας, θάνατος, μοῖρα common to all, Hom. equal in force, a match for one, Lat. par, Il., Hdt. like in mind, at one with, agreeing with, τινι Hes.:—hence (sub. ἑαυτῷ) always the same, Hes.; ὅμοιος πρὸς τοὺς αὐτοὺς κινδύνους Thuc. τὸ ὁμοῖον ἀνταποδιδόναι to give "tit for tat," Lat. par pari referre, Hdt.; so, τὴν ὁμοίην (sc. χάριν) διδόναι or ἀποδιδόναι τινί Hdt.; τὴν ὁμοίην φέρεσθαι παρά τινος to have a like return made one, Hdt.; ἐπʼ ἴσῃ καὶ ὁμοίᾳ (v. ἴσος II.2). ἐν ὁμοίῳ ποιεῖσθαί τι to hold a thing in like esteem, Hdt. ἐκ τοῦ ὁμοίου, alike, much like ὁμοίως, Thuc.; ἐκ τῶν ὁμοίων with equal advantages, in fair fight, Aesch. of the same rank or station, Hdt.: οἱ ὅμοιοι, the peers, Xen., Arist. Construction: absol., as often in Hom., etc. the person or thing to which one is like in dat., as with Lat. similis, Hom., etc.; also in gen.: —ellipt., κόμαι Χαρίτεσσιν ὁμοῖαι, for -κόμαι ταῖς τῶν Χαρίτων ὁμοῖαι, Il. that in which a person or thing is like another is in acc., ἀθανάτῃσι φυὴν καὶ εἶδος ὁμοίη Od. with inf., θείειν ἀνέμοισιν ὁμοῖοι like the winds to run, Il. foll. by καί, like Lat. perinde ac, Hdt., etc. adv., often in the neuters, ὅμοιον and ὅμοια, Ionic and old Attic ὁμοῖον, ὁμοῖα, in like manner with, ὁμοῖα τοῖς μάλιστα "second to none, " Hdt.; ὁμοῖα τοῖς πρώτοισι Hdt. alike, Aesch. regul. adv. ὁμοίως, in like manner with, c. dat., Hdt., Attic; ὁμ. καὶ . . Hdt. alike, equally, Hdt., Aesch.