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ἀκρατοπότης?

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: akratopotēs

Principal Part: ἀκρατοπότης

Structure: ἀκρατοποτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

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 ἡρ´ωα Ἀκρατοπότην τιμᾶσθαι, παρὰ δὲ Σπαρτιάταις Μάττωνα καὶ Κεράωνα ἡρ´ωας 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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