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ἀποστολεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀποστολεύς

Structure: ἀποστολευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)poste/llw

Sense

  1. a magistrate who had to fit out

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

  • ὡσ δὲ τοῦτό μου εἰπόντοσ οὐκ ἀπεδίδου, ὕστερον αὐτῷ περιτυχὼν περὶ τὸν Ἑρμῆν τὸν πρὸσ τῇ πυλίδι προσεκαλεσάμην πρόσ τε τοὺσ ἀποστολέασ καὶ πρὸσ τοὺσ τῶν νεωρίων ἐπιμελητάσ· (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 34:3)
  • Μαρτυρίαι ταῦτα τοίνυν ἐγὼ πάντα ἐνθυμούμενοσ, καὶ ἀκούων τὸν Θεόφημον τῶν πεπλησιακότων οἱο͂σ εἰή περὶ τὰ διάφορα, καὶ οὐκ ἀπολαμβάνων τὰ σκεύη παρ’ αὐτοῦ, προσῄειν πρόσ τε τοὺσ ἀποστολέασ καὶ τὴν βουλήν καὶ τὸν δῆμον, λέγων ὅτι οὐκ ἀποδίδωσί μοι τὰ σκεύη ὁ Θεόφημοσ, ἃ ὦφλεν ἐν τῷ δικαστηρίῳ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 42:5)
  • ὡσ δὲ ταῦτά μου λέγοντοσ οὐκ ἀπεδίδου, ἀλλὰ ἠπείλει καὶ ἐλοιδορεῖτο, ἐκέλευσα τὸν παῖδα καλέσαι εἴ τινασ ἴδοι τῶν πολιτῶν παριόντασ ἐκ τῆσ ὁδοῦ, ἵνα μάρτυρέσ μοι εἰήσαν τῶν λεγομένων, καὶ ἠξίουν πάλιν τὸν Θεόφημον ἢ αὐτὸν ἀκολουθεῖν πρὸσ τοὺσ ἀποστολέασ καὶ τὴν βουλήν, καὶ εἰ μή φησιν ὀφείλειν, ἐκείνουσ πείθειν τοὺσ παραδόντασ καὶ ἀναγκάζοντασ εἰσπράττειν, ἢ ἀποδιδόναι τὰ σκεύη· (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 48:2)

Synonyms

  1. a magistrate who had to fit out

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

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