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ἀκέστωρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκέστωρ ἀκέστορος

Structure: ἀκεστωρ (Stem)

Etym.: a)ke/omai

Sense

  1. a healer, savior

Declension

Third 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

  • οἱ δὲ συμπόται εἰσὶν Θέωροσ Αἰσχίνησ Φᾶνοσ Κλέων, ξένοσ τισ ἕτεροσ πρὸσ κεφαλῆσ Ἀκέστοροσ. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Episode 1:46)
  • "ἔχθρα γὰρ αὐτῷ μᾶλλον ἢ φιλία λέγεται γεγονέναι πρὸσ τὴν πόλιν, ἁρπάσαντι μὲν τὴν μητέρα τοῦ Ποιμάνδρου Στρατονίκην, ἀποκτείναντι δ’ υἱὸν Ἐφίππου Ἀκέστορα. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 37 1:2)
  • "’ ἔχθρα γὰρ αὐτῷ μᾶλλον ἢ φιλία λέγεται γεγονέναι πρὸσ τὴν πόλιν, ἁρπάσαντι μὲν τὴν μητέρα τοῦ Ποιμάνδρου Στρατονίκην, ἀποκτείναντι δ’ υἱὸν Ἐφίππου Ἀκέστορα" Ποίμανδροσ τοίνυν ὁ Ἐφίππου πατήρ, ἔτι τῆσ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 373)
  • Ἐνατίωνι δὲ καὶ Ἀλεξιβίῳ, τῷ μὲν ἐν παισὶ σταδίου, Ἀλεξιβίῳ δὲ πεντάθλου γέγονε νίκη, καὶ Ἡραία τε Ἀρκάδων ἐστὶν αὐτῷ πατρὶσ καὶ Ἀκέστωρ ὁ τὴν εἰκόνα εἰργασμένοσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 17 6:1)
  • ἐποίησε δὲ Ἀμφίων Ἀκέστοροσ Κνώσσιοσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 15 10:2)

Synonyms

  1. a healer

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

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