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Μαργίτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Μαργίτης Μαργίτου

Structure: Μαργιτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: ma/rgos

Sense

  1. Margites, a mad fellow

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • Ὁρᾷσ, ὅπωσ αὖθισ ἐξαπατᾷσ με καὶ οὐ λέγεισ τἀληθέσ, ἀλλ̓ οἰεί Μαργίτῃ διαλέγεσθαί τινι, ὡσ πιστεῦσαι ὅτι Ἑρμότιμοσ, ἀνὴρ συνετόσ, ἔτη τότε γεγονὼσ τετταράκοντα, περὶ φιλοσοφίασ καὶ φιλοσόφων ἀνδρῶν τοῖσ ἰδιώταισ ἐπίστευσε καὶ κατὰ τὰ ὑπ̓ ἐκείνων λεγόμενα ἐποιεῖτο τὴν αἱρ́εσιν τῶν κρειττόνων ἀξιῶν· (Lucian, 34:8)
  • εἶναι δέ τινασ σοφοὺσ οἰόμεθα ὅλωσ οὐ κατὰ μέροσ οὐδ’ ἄλλο τι σοφούσ, ὥσπερ Ὅμηρόσ φησιν ἐν τῷ Μαργίτῃ τὸν δ’ οὔτ’ ἂρ σκαπτῆρα θεοὶ θέσαν οὔτ’ ἀροτῆραοὔτ’ ἄλλωσ τι σοφόν. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 6 46:1)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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