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ἀκρατοπότης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκρατοπότης

Structure: ἀκρατοποτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: a)/kratos, pi/nw

Sense

  1. a drinker of sheer wine

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

  • Πολέμων φησὶν ἐν Μουνυχίᾳ ἡρ́ωα Ἀκρατοπότην τιμᾶσθαι, παρὰ δὲ Σπαρτιάταισ Μάττωνα καὶ Κεράωνα ἡρ́ωασ ὑπό τινων μαγείρων ἱδρῦσθαι ἐν τοῖσ φειδιτίοισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 9 1:3)
  • καὶ Λακεδαιμόνιοι δ’, ὥσ φησιν Ἡρόδοτοσ ἐν τῇ ἕκτῃ, Κλεομένη τὸν βασιλέα Σκύθαισ ὁμιλήσαντα καὶ ἀκρατοπότην γενόμενον ἐκ τῆσ μέθησ φασὶ μανῆναι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 29 1:1)
  • Κλεομένησ δὲ ὁ Λακεδαιμόνιοσ ὅτι καὶ ἀκρατοπότησ ἦν προείρηται· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 48 1:6)

Synonyms

  1. a drinker of sheer wine

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

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