ὅρμ-ημα, ατος, τό,
sudden rush, swoop, onset, ἀετοῦ [[ LXX.Deu.28.49 ] LXX]; of attacking troops,[[LXX.1Mac.4.8, +others ] LXX]; of the fall of a stone, [[ NT.Rev.18.21 ] NT]: plural, rapid movement, ὁρμήμασι νηός, ={νηῒ ὁρμωμένη}, Oracle texts cited in [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 13.21. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__2 ={ὁρμή}, impulse, incitement, motive, μηδ᾽.. ἡμῶν τι συνεργὸν μηδ᾽ ὅ. [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “De rerum natura - Wien. Stud.” 98 G., compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.452c ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὸ ὅ. μου my indignation, [[ LXX.Hos.5.10 ] LXX]; θαλάσσης -ήματα, of the tides, [[ 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “Paraphrasis Ptolemaei Tetrabiblou” 4. ] Refs 5th c.AD+]
__II the earliest exception is Ἑλένης ὁρμήματά τε στοναχάς τε [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.356, 590, where Ἑλένης is taken by 3rd-2nd c.BC: Aristarchus Grammaticus cited in Scholia A] Refs 8th c.BC+] as the objective genitive, the cares (as if from ὁρμαίνω) and groans [of the Greeks] about Helen, i. e. caused by her; by the χωρίζοντες [[([prev. passage]) as the subjective _genitive_, the ] Refs]searchings of heart and groans of Helen; the former view is more probably, but ὁ. may be from ὁρμάομαι and mean the rushes, struggles of war.