Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀπόδημος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπόδημος ἀπόδημη ἀπόδημον

Structure: ἀποδημ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. away from one's country, from home, abroad

Examples

  • εὖ γὰρ οἶδ’ ὅτι πάσαισιν ὑμῖν ἐστιν ἀποδημῶν ἀνήρ. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Prologue 3:15)
  • εἴ τισ πέρυσιν ἀποδημῶν δἰ αὐτὸ ἄμοιροσ κατέστη, ἀπολαμβανέτω κἀκεῖνα. (Lucian, Saturnalia, 2:11)
  • καὶ δή ποτε ὁ μὲν Δημήτριοσ ἔτυχεν ἐσ τὴν Αἴγυπτον ^ ἀποδημῶν κατὰ θέαν τῶν πυραμίδων καὶ τοῦ Μέμνονοσ· (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 26:3)
  • πολὺσ ἄνω λόγοσ ἐχώρει τοῦ Ἀγησιλάου, καὶ δόξα θαυμαστὴ κατεῖχε τῆσ τε σωφροσύνησ αὐτοῦ καὶ εὐτελείασ καὶ μετριότητοσ, ἐσκήνου μὲν γὰρ ἀποδημῶν καθ’ αὑτὸν ἐν τοῖσ ἁγιωτάτοισ ἱεροῖσ, ἃ μὴ πολλοὶ καθορῶσιν ἄνθρωποι πράττοντασ ἡμᾶσ, τούτων τοὺσ θεοὺσ ποιούμενοσ ἐπόπτασ καὶ μάρτυρασ· (Plutarch, Agesilaus, chapter 14 1:2)
  • ὁ γὰρ νόμοσ, ἄν τισ μὴ γένηται διαιτητὴσ τῆσ ἡλικίασ αὐτῷ καθηκούσησ, ἄτιμον εἶναι κελεύει, πλὴν ἐὰν τύχῃ ἀρχὴν ἄρχων τινὰ ἐν ἐκείνῳ τῷ ἐνιαυτῷ ἢ ἀποδημῶν· (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 53 5:3)

Synonyms

  1. away from one's country

Related

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

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