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Μηδισμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Μηδισμός Μηδισμοῦ

Structure: Μηδισμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a leaning towards the Medes, being in their interest, Medism

Declension

Second 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

  • "ἐμιμεῖτο δὲ Ἀλκιβιάδησ τὸν Παυσανίου μηδισμὸν καὶ καθομιλῶν Φαρνάβαζον τὴν Περσικὴν ἐνεδύετο στολὴν καὶ τὴν Περσικὴν ἔμαθε φωνήν, καθάπερ καὶ Θεμιστοκλῆσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 47 3:24)
  • ἐκεῖνοι Θεμιστοκλέα λαβόντεσ μεῖζον ἑαυτῶν ἀξιοῦντα φρονεῖν ἐξήλασαν ἐκ τῆσ πόλεωσ καὶ μηδισμὸν κατέγνωσαν· (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 289:1)
  • ἀπικομένη δὲ ἐσ τὴν Αἴγυπτον ἡ Φερετίμη Ἀρυάνδεω ἱκέτισ ἵζετο, τιμωρῆσαι ἑωυτῇ κελεύουσα, προισχομένη πρόφασιν ὡσ διὰ τὸν μηδισμὸν ὁ παῖσ οἱ τέθνηκε. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 165 3:1)
  • ὡσ δὲ ἐσεῖδε τὴν νέα τὴν Ἀττικὴν ὁ Πολύκριτοσ, ἔγνω τὸ σημήιον ἰδὼν τῆσ στρατηγίδοσ, καὶ βώσασ τὸν Θεμιστοκλέα ἐπεκερτόμησε ἐσ τῶν Αἰγινητέων τὸν μηδισμὸν ὀνειδίζων. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 8, chapter 92 3:1)

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

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