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ἀθλοθέτης

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀθλοθέτης ἀθλοθέτες

Structure: ἀθλοθετη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ti/qhmi

Sense

  1. one who awards the prize, the judge

Examples

  • "ὁ Περσῶν βασιλεὺσ ἀθλοθετῶν τοῖσ τὰσ ἡδονὰσ αὐτῷ πορίζουσιν ὑπὸ πάντων τῶν ἡδέων ἡττωμένην ἀπέδειξε τὴν βασιλείαν καὶ καταγωνιζόμενοσ ἑαυτὸν οὐκ ᾔσθετο πρότερον ἢ τὸ σκῆπτρον ἕτεροι λαβόντεσ ἀνεκηρύχθησαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 55 1:1)
  • εὖ γὰρ καὶ ὁ Πλάτων ἠπόρει τοῦτο καὶ ἐζήτει, πότερον ἀπὸ τῶν ἀρχῶν ἢ ἐπὶ τὰσ ἀρχάσ ἐστιν ἡ ὁδόσ, ὥσπερ ἐν τῷ σταδίῳ ἀπὸ τῶν ἀθλοθετῶν ἐπὶ τὸ πέρασ ἢ ἀνάπαλιν. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1 22:2)
  • τότε καὶ τοὺσ μουσικῆσ ἀγῶνασ χρὴ προσδοκᾶν κατὰ μέροσ ἀγωνιεῖσθαι ταχθέντασ ὑπό τε ἀθλοθετῶν καὶ τοῦ παιδευτοῦ τῶν νέων καὶ τῶν νομοφυλάκων, εἰσ κοινὸν περὶ αὐτῶν τούτων συνελθόντων καὶ γενομένων νομοθετῶν αὐτῶν, τοῦ τε πότε καὶ τίνεσ καὶ μετὰ τίνων τοὺσ ἀγῶνασ ποιήσονται περὶ ἁπάντων χορῶν καὶ χορείασ. (Plato, Laws, book 8 44:1)

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

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