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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

  • Ἀριστόβουλοσ δ’ ὁ Κασανδρεὺσ ὑπὲρ τὰ ἐνενήκοντα ἔτη λέγεται βεβιωκέναι, τὴν ἱστορίαν δὲ τέταρτον καὶ ὀγδοηκοστὸν ἔτοσ γεγονὼσ ἤρξατο συγγράφειν, ὡσ αὐτὸσ ἐν ἀρχῇ τῆσ πραγματείασ λέγει. (Lucian, Macrobii, (no name) 22:6)
  • 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)
  • Ἀριστόβουλοσ δ’ ὁ Κασανδρεύσ φησιν ἐν Μιλήτῳ κρήνην εἶναι Ἀχίλλειον καλουμένην, ἧσ τὸ μὲν ῥεῦμα εἶναι γλυκύτατον, τὸ δ’ ἐφεστηκὸσ ἁλμυρόν ἀφ’ ἧσ οἱ Μιλήσιοι περιρράνασθαί φασι τὸν ἡρ́ωα, ὅτε ἀπέκτεινε Τράμβηλον τὸν τῶν Λελέγων βασιλέα, φασὶ δὲ καὶ ὅτι τὸ περὶ Καππαδοκίαν ὕδωρ πολύ τε ὂν καὶ κάλλιστον οὐ σήπεται ἀπόρρυσιν οὐκ ἔχον, πλὴν εἰ μὴ ὑπὸ γῆν ῥέοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 191)
  • κληθῆναι δὲ τὰ Σοῦσά φησιν Ἀριστόβουλοσ καὶ Χάρησ διὰ τὴν ὡραιότητα τοῦ τόπου· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 8 1:1)
  • Ἀριστόβουλοσ δ’ ἐν Ἀγχιάλῃ, ἣν ἐδείματο, φησί, Σαρδανάπαλλοσ, Ἀλέξανδροσ ἀναβαίνων εἰσ Πέρσασ κατεστρατοπεδεύσατο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 20 1:153)

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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