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ἀγύρτης

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀγύρτης

Structure: ἀγυρτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: a)gei/rw

Sense

  1. a collector, a begging priest
  2. a beggar, mountebank, vagabond, juggler

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

  • δύναται γάρ, ὡσ ἐοίκεν, ἡ παράκαιροσ ἅμα καὶ μάταιοσ αὐτῶν περὶ τὸν βίον τρυφὴ καὶ τοὺσ ταῖσ λόγχαισ καθωπλισμένουσ ἀγύρτασ ἀποφαίνειν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 9 1:2)
  • οὐδὲν κακὸν ἐχούσησ ὕπαρ ἐξαπατῶσιν ἑαυτοὺσ καὶ δαπανῶσι καὶ ταράττουσιν, εἰσ ἀγύρτασ καὶ γόητασ ἐμπεσόντεσ λέγοντασ ἀλλ’ εἴτ’ ἔνυπνον φάντασμα φοβεῖ, χθονίασ θ’ Ἑκάτησ κῶμον ἐδέξω, τὴν περιμάκτριαν κάλει γραῦν καὶ βάπτισον σεαυτὸν εἰσ θάλασσαν καὶ καθίσασ ἐν τῇ γῇ διημέρευσον. (Plutarch, De superstitione, section 3 11:1)

Synonyms

  1. a collector

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

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