ὄχλος, ὁ,
crowd, throng, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.85, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 42 (_anapaest meter_), etc.; ἐσὄχλον ἕρπειν παρθένοισιν οὐ καλόν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 108, compare “Heracl.” 44 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ ὄ. τῶν στρατιωτῶν the mass of the soldiers, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.1.26, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.64, 7.62; μηδένα ὄ. Πελοποννησίων νεῶν [prev. author] 2.88 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὄχλῳ in numbers (for an army), [[ [prev. author] 1.80; ὁ μισθοφόρος ὄ. [prev. author] 3.109, compare 4.56 ] Refs]; οἱ τοιοῦτοι ὄ. undisciplined masses like these,[[ [prev. work] 126; ὄ. μᾶλλον ἢ στρατός 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 6.7.1 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; of the camp-followers, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.4.26, 4.3.26, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 in political sense, populace, mob, opposed to δῆμος (people), [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.8, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 304d; πρὸς ὄχλον ζῶν [prev. author] “Ax.” 368d; οἱ ὁμότιμοι ὤκνουν τὴν τοῦ ὄ. ἰσομοιρίαν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.2.21 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δικαστηρίων καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ὄ. and popular assemblies (in a contemptuous sense), [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 455a, compare “Euthd.” 290a: proverbial, δι᾽ ὄχλου ἤδη τοῦτό γε] Refs 5th c.BC+] this is already in the mouths of the people, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Lysia” 10, compare 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Bellum Judaicum” 2.13.1, 4.9.2. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__3 generally, mass, multitude, ὄ. τὸν πλεῖστον λόγων [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 827; τὸν πλεῖστον ὄ. τῶν πραχθέντων 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.192 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἵππων ὄ. [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 191 (Lyric poetry); ἄκριτος ἄστρων ὄ. 5th c.BC: Critias Philosophus, Tragicus, Elegiacus 19.5 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator; σαρκῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 75e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: in plural, the masses, καχεξία τις ὑποδέδυκε τοὺς ὄχλους [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus 24.4, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 161.1, 466.4; πιθανώτεροι οἱ ἀπαίδευτοι ἐν τοῖς ὄ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1395b28. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]