Homeric Definition

hō-mĕrĭk
adjective
Of, like, or characteristic of the poet Homer, his poems, or the Greek civilization that they describe (c. 1200-800 b.c.)
Webster's New World
Epic, large-scale, etc.
Homeric efforts.
Webster's New World
Heroic in proportion, degree, or character; epic.
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Origin of Homeric

  • From Latin homēricus, from Ancient Greek Ὁμηρικός (homerikos), from Ὅμηρος (Homēros, “Homer”).

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Homeric Sentence Examples

  • This advantage, recalled by an old though erroneous 1 Servus is not cognate with servare, as has often been supposed; it is really related to the Homeric E'lpepos and the verb Etpw, with which the Latin sero is to be connected.

  • We find slavery fully established in the Homeric period.

  • Rendel Harris (1899) advocated the view that the Gospel of Nicodemus, as we possess it, is merely a prose version of the Gospel of Nicodemus written originally in Homeric centones as early as the 2nd century.

  • In the Homeric poems Laconia appears as the realm of an Achaean prince, Menelaus, whose capital was perhaps Therapne on the left bank of the Eurotas, S.E.

  • There has been considerable discussion as to the identification of the Homeric lotus.

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