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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

  • τί δ’ αἱ τοσαῦται μυριάδεσ στίχων ἐπὶ Μητρόδωρον, ἐπ’ Ἀριστόβουλον, ἐπὶ Χαιρέδημον γραφόμεναι καὶ συντασσόμεναι φιλοπόνωσ; (Plutarch, An Recte Dictum Sit Latenter Esse Vivendum, section 3 4:4)
  • καὶ πρῶτον μὲν ἐπ’ Ἀριστόβουλον Ιοὐδαίουσ ὰφιστάντα πεμφθεὶσ αὐτὸσ μὲν ἐπέβη τοῦ μεγίστου τῶν ἐρυμάτων πρῶτοσ, ἐκεῖνον δὲ πάντων ἐξήλασεν· (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 3 1:2)
  • χειρωσάμενοσ δὲ δι’ Ἀφρανίου τοὺσ περὶ Ἀμανὸν Ἄραβασ καὶ καταβὰσ αὐτὸσ εἰσ Συρίαν, ταύτην μὲν ὡσ οὐκ ἔχουσαν γνησίουσ βασιλεῖσ ἐπαρχίαν ἀπέφηνε καὶ κτῆμα τοῦ δήμου Ῥωμαίων, τὴν δὲ Ιοὐδαίαν κατεστρέψατο, καὶ συνέλαβεν Ἀριστόβουλον τὸν βασιλέα. (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 39 2:1)
  • ἓν δὲ γένοσ ἔτι τὸ Ιοὐδαίων ἐνιστάμενον ὁ Πομπήιοσ ἐξεῖλε κατὰ κράτοσ, καὶ τὸν βασιλέα Ἀριστόβουλον ἔπεμψεν ἐσ Ῥώμην, καὶ τὴν μεγίστην πόλιν Ιἑροσόλυμα καὶ ἁγιωτάτην αὐτοῖσ κατέσκαψεν, ἣν δὴ καὶ Πτολεμαῖοσ ὁ πρῶτοσ Αἰγύπτου βασιλεὺσ καθῃρήκει, καὶ Οὐεσπασιανὸσ αὖθισ οἰκισθεῖσαν κατέσκαψε, καὶ Ἀδριανὸσ αὖθισ ἐπ’ ἐμοῦ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 8 5:2)
  • " Ἀπέστειλε δὲ Περσαῖον καὶ Φιλωνίδην τὸν Θηβαῖον, ὧν ἀμφοτέρων Ἐπίκουροσ μνημονεύει ὡσ συνόντων Ἀντιγόνῳ ἐν τῇ πρὸσ Ἀριστόβουλον τὸν ἀδελφὸν ἐπιστολῇ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. a'. ZHNWN 9:6)

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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