ὅμῑλ-ος,
Aeolic dialect ὄμιλλος [
Refs]: ὁ: (ὁμός, ἴλη)
any assembled crowd, throng of people, for a feast, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; for a spectacle, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]: rare in
Attic dialect Comedy texts and Prose, as [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially
the mass of the people, the crowd, opposed to the chiefs, προπάροιθεν ὁμίλου [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἵππων καὶ ἀνδρῶν ὅ. [
Refs]; τὸν ψιλὸν ὅ. the
crowd of irregulars, opposed to ὁπλῖται, [
Refs 5th c.BC+];
mob, διδασκάλῳ χρείωνται ὁμίλῳ [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; but also ὅ. πολλὸς μὲν Ἕλλην περιοικέει a large Hellenic
population, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
b) of inanimate objects, [σῆμα] οὔ τι μεμιγμένον ἐστὶν ὁμίλῳ [
Refs 8th c.BC+]
2)
throng of battle, τὴν ἔξαγ᾽ ὁμίλου [
Refs 8th c.BC+], etc; πρώτῳ ἐν ὁ. in the forefront of
battle, [
Refs]
tumult, confusion, βοῇ καὶ ὁμίλῳ [
Refs 5th c.BC+] —The word seems not to be used in _plural_