A.female slave taken in war, δμῳαὶ δ᾽ ἃς Ἀχιλεὺς ληΐσσατο (cf. δμώς) Il. 18.28, cf. 9.658, 24.643: generally, female slave, serving-woman, only in pl. in Hom., mostly joined with γυναῖκες: “δμῳαί” A.Ag.908, S.Ant.1189; “δ. γυναῖκες” A.Ch.84; rare in Prose, X.Cyr.5.1.6, Philostr.VA1.5: later in sg., Q.S.5.561; of things, “δμωὴν . . Ἄϊδος . . μάκελλαν” IG14.1389ii25.
δμῳ-ή (Choerob. in Theod.1.405) or δμω-ή (both spellings freq. in codd.), ἡ, (δαμάω) prop.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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