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ἀποδέκτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀποδέκτης

Structure: ἀποδεκτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. a receiver

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

  • ὅταν δ’ ᾖ χρημάτων καταβολή, παραδίδωσι τοῖσ ἀποδέκταισ αὐτὰ ταῦτα καθελὼν ἀπὸ τῶν ἐπιστυλίων, ὧν ἐν ταύτῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ δεῖ τὰ χρήματα καταβληθῆναι καὶ ἀπαλειφθῆναι· (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 47 5:2)
  • εἰσὶ δ’ ἀποδέκται δέκα κεκληρωμένοι κατὰ φυλάσ· (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 48 1:1)
  • κληροῦνται δὲ καὶ ἱερῶν ἐπισκευασταὶ δέκα ἄνδρεσ, οἳ λαμβάνοντεσ τριάκοντα μνᾶσ παρὰ τῶν ἀποδεκτῶν ἐπισκευάζουσιν τὰ μάλιστα δεόμενα τῶν ἱερῶν· (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 50 1:2)
  • οὗτοι μὲν οὖν ταύτασ δικάζουσιν ἐμμήνουσ εἰσάγοντεσ, οἱ δ’ ἀποδέκται τοῖσ τελώναισ καὶ κατὰ τῶν τελωνῶν, τὰ μὲν μέχρι δέκα δραχμῶν ὄντεσ κύριοι, τὰ δ’ ἄλλ’ εἰσ τὸ δικαστήριον εἰσάγοντεσ ἔμμηνα. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 52 3:1)
  • διὰ δὲ τὴν πρὸσ Εὔβουλον γενομένην πίστιν ὑμῖν οἱ ἐπὶ τὸ θεωρικὸν κεχειροτονημένοι ἦρχον μέν, πρὶν ἢ τὸν Ἡγήμονοσ νόμον γενέσθαι, τὴν τοῦ ἀντιγραφέωσ ἀρχήν, ἦρχον δὲ τὴν τῶν ἀποδεκτῶν, καὶ νεωρίων ἦρχον, καὶ σκευοθήκην ᾠκοδόμουν, ἦσαν δὲ καὶ ὁδοποιοί, καὶ σχεδὸν τὴν ὅλην διοίκησιν εἶχον τῆσ πόλεωσ. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 25 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. a receiver

Related

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

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