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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

  • ὡσ γάρ φασιν οἱ Πάραλοι καὶ οἱ πρεσβεύσαντεσ πρὸσ Ἀλέξανδρον, καὶ τὸ πρᾶγμα εἰκότωσ πιστεύεται, ἔστι τισ Ἀριστίων Πλαταϊκόσ, ὁ τοῦ Ἀριστοβούλου τοῦ φαρμακοπώλου υἱόσ, εἴ τισ ἄρα καὶ ὑμῶν γιγνώσκει. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 1621)
  • Πτολεμαῖοσ ὁ Λάγου καὶ Ἀριστόβουλοσ ὁ Ἀριστοβούλου ὅσα μὲν ταὐτὰ ἄμφω περὶ Ἀλεξάνδρου τοῦ Φιλίππου συνέγραψαν, ταῦτα ἐγὼ ὡσ πάντῃ ἀληθῆ ἀναγράφω, ὅσα δὲ οὐ ταὐτά, τούτων τὰ πιστότερα ἐμοὶ φαινόμενα καὶ ἅμα ἀξιαφηγητότερα ἐπιλεξάμενοσ. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 1, chapter pr 1:1)
  • ταῦτα δὲ οὔτε Πτολεμαῖοσ ὁ Λάγου οὔτε Ἀριστόβουλοσ ὁ Ἀριστοβούλου ἀνέγραψαν οὐδέ τισ ἄλλοσ ὅντινα ἱκανὸν ἄν τισ ποιήσαιτο τεκμηριῶσαι ὑπὲρ τῶν τοιῶνδε, καί μοι ὡσ οὐ πιστὰ ἀναγεγράφθαι ἐξήρκεσαν. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 6, chapter 28 2:1)
  • ἐπολέμησε δὲ καὶ Ἄραψι τοῖσ Ναβαταίοισ, Ἀρέτα βασιλεύοντοσ αὐτῶν, καὶ Ιοὐδαίοισ, Ἀριστοβούλου τοῦ βασιλέωσ ἀποστάντοσ, ἑώσ εἷλεν Ιἑροσόλυμα τὴν ἁγιωτάτην αὐτοῖσ πόλιν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 16 1:2)
  • πρὸσ ταῦτα ὀδυρόμενον τὸν Ὑρκανὸν ἡ μήτηρ οἰκτείρασα τήν τε γυναῖκα καὶ τοὺσ παῖδασ Ἀριστοβούλου καθείργνυσιν εἰσ τὴν Ἀντωνίαν· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 168:1)

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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