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ἀριστόβουλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀριστόβουλος

Structure: ἀριστοβουλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: boulh/

Sense

  1. best-advising

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

  • ὥσπερ Ἀριστόβουλοσ μονομαχίαν γράψασ Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Πώρου, καὶ ἀναγνόντοσ αὐτῷ τοῦτο μάλιστα τὸ χωρίον τῆσ γραφῆσ ‐ ᾤετο γὰρ χαριεῖσθαι τὰ μέγιστα τῷ βασιλεῖ ἐπιψευδομενοσ ἀριστείασ τινὰσ αὐτῷ καὶ ἀναπλάττων ἔργα μείζω τῆσ ἀληθείασ ‐ λαβὼν ἐκεῖνοσ τὸ βιβλίον ‐ πλέοντεσ δὲ ἐτύγχανον ἐν τῷ ποταμῷ τῷ Ὑδάσπῃ ‐ ἔρριψεν ἐπὶ κεφαλὴν ἐσ τὸ ὕδωρ ἐπειπών, Καὶ σὲ δὲ οὕτωσ ἐχρῆν, ὦ Ἀριστόβουλε, τοιαῦτα ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ μονομαχοῦντα καὶ ἐλέφαντασ ἑνὶ ἀκοντίῳ φονεύοντα. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 123)

Synonyms

  1. best-advising

Related

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

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