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Πυθαϊστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Πυθαϊστής Πυθαϊστοῦ

Structure: Πυθαϊστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. one who consults Apollo's oracle

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

  • ἐντεῦθεν δὲ ἡ παροιμία τὴν ἀρχὴν ἔσχεν ἡ λέγουσα "ὁπόταν δι’ Ἅρματοσ ἀστράψῃ," ἀστραπήν τινα σημειουμένων κατὰ χρησμὸν τῶν λεγομένων Πυθαϊστῶν, βλεπόντων ὡσ ἐπὶ τὸ Ἅρμα καὶ τότε πεμπόντων τὴν θυσίαν εἰσ Δελφοὺσ ὅταν ἀστράψαντα ἴδωσιν· (Strabo, Geography, Book 9, chapter 2 21:4)

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

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