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ἀργυρώνητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀργυρώνητος ἀργυρώνητη ἀργυρώνητον

Structure: ἀργυρωνητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: w)ne/omai

Sense

  1. bought with silver

Declension

First/Second 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

  • Καὶ ἔλαβεν Ἁβραὰμ Ἰσμαὴλ τὸν υἱὸν ἑαυτοῦ καὶ πάντασ τοὺσ οἰκογενεῖσ αὐτοῦ καὶ πάντασ τοὺσ ἀργυρωνήτουσ καὶ πᾶν ἄρσεν τῶν ἀνδρῶν τῶν ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ Ἁβραὰμ καὶ περιέτεμε τὰσ ἀκροβυστίασ αὐτῶν ἐν τῷ καιρῷ τῆσ ἡμέρασ ἐκείνησ, καθὰ ἐλάλησεν αὐτῷ ὁ Θεόσ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 17:23)
  • οὐχ ὁμόψηφοι πάντεσ ἦσαν, ἀλλ’ οἱ μὲν ἠξίουν ἀποδύσαντασ αὐτὸν ὥσπερ τοὺσ ἀργυρωνήτουσ ἐπισκοπεῖν εἰ δύναται ^ φιλοσοφεῖν τά γε πρὸσ τῶν ὄρχεων· (Lucian, Eunuchus, (no name) 12:1)
  • οὐ γὰρ μόνον τὰσ γαμετάσ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰσ ἀργυρωνήτουσ καὶ παλλακευομένασ ἰσχυρῶσ παραφυλάττουσιν, ὡσ ὑπὸ μηδενὸσ ὁρᾶσθαι τῶν ἐκτόσ, ἀλλ’ οἴκοι μὲν διαιτᾶσθαι κατακεκλεισμένασ, ἐν δὲ ταῖσ ὁδοιπορίαισ ὑπὸ σκηνὰσ κύκλῳ περιπεφραγμένασ ἐπὶ τῶν ἁρμαμαξῶν ὀχεῖσθαι τοιαύτησ τῷ Θεμιστοκλεῖ κατασκευασθείσησ ἀπήνησ καταδὺσ ἐκομίζετο, τῶν περὶ αὐτὸν ἀεὶ τοῖσ ἐντυγχάνουσι καὶ πυνθανομένοισ λεγόντων, ὅτι γύναιον Ἑλληνικὸν ἄγουσιν ἀπ’ Ιὠνίασ πρόσ τινα τῶν ἐπὶ θύραισ βασιλέωσ. (Plutarch, , chapter 26 4:1)
  • πολλὴ γὰρ αἰδὼσ δωματοφθορεῖν ποσὶν φθείροντα πλοῦτον ἀργυρωνήτουσ θ’ ὑφάσ. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode, anapests 10:3)
  • θυσίασ συνόδουσ, πέπαυκε δὲ τοὺσ ἀρχαιρεσιάζοντασ καὶ ψηφοφοροῦντασ καὶ περὶ τῶν κοινῶν ἐκκλησιάζοντασ, ἀναγκάζει δ’ ὅσα δούλουσ ἀργυρωνήτουσ ταλαιπωρεῖν λατομοῦντασ ὑλοτομοῦντασ ἀχθοφοροῦντασ, ἐν ταρτάροισ καὶ βαράθροισ δαπανωμένουσ, ἀνάπαυσιν τῶν κακῶν οὐδὲ τὴν ἐλαχίστην λαμβάνοντασ; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 4, chapter 81 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. bought with silver

Related

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

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