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ἀνώμα^λ-ος , ον, (ἀ- priv., ὁμαλός)
A.uneven, irregular, “χώρα” Pl.Lg.625d; “φύσις” Id.Ti.58a; “τὸ ἀ. τῆς ναυμαχίας” Th.7.71 (cj.), cf. Arist.Pr.885a15: and in Sup., Hp.Aër.13; of movements, Arist.Ph.228b16, al.; of periods of time, Id.GA772b7; of the voice, ib.788a1. Adv. “-λως, κινεῖσθαι” Id.Ph.238a22, cf. Pl.Ti.52e.
II. of conditions, fortune, and the like , “φεῦ τῶν βροτείων ὡς ἀ. τύχαι” E.Fr.684; πόλις, πολιτεία, Pl.Lg.773b, Mx.238e; “θέα” Plot.6.7.34. Adv. “-λως” Hp.Prog.3, Isoc.7.29; ἀ. διατεθῆναι τὸ σῶμα fall into precarious health, Prisc.p.333 D.
III. of persons, inconsistent, capricious, “ὁμαλῶς ἀ.” Arist.Po.1454a26; ὄχλος, δαιμόνιον, App.BC3.42, Pun.59; “πίθηκος” Phryn. Com.20; “τύχη” AP10.96. Adv. “-λως” Isoc. 9.44.
IV. Gramm., of words which deviate from a general rule, anomalous, Diom.1.327 K.; but τὸ ἀ. τῆς συντάξεως diversity of construction, A.D.Synt.291.17. Adv.-λως Sch.Th.Oxy.853v18.
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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