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ἀρχαιόπλουτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀρχαιόπλουτος ἀρχαιόπλουτη ἀρχαιόπλουτον

Structure: ἀρχαιοπλουτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. rich from olden time, of old hereditary wealth

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

  • παράγεται γὰρ ἐνέρων δολιόπουσ ἀρωγὸσ εἴσω στέγασ, ἀρχαιόπλουτα πατρὸσ εἰσ ἑδώλια, νεακόνητον αἷμα χειροῖν ἔχων· (Sophocles, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • εἰ δ’ οὖν ἀνάγκη τῆσδ’ ἐπιρρέποι τύχησ, ἀρχαιοπλούτων δεσποτῶν πολλὴ χάρισ. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode4)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἐνταῦθα μᾶλλον λυποῦσιν οἱ νεόπλουτοι ἄρχοντεσ διὰ τὸν πλοῦτον ἢ οἱ ἀρχαιόπλουτοι. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 9 9:5)
  • φαινόμεθα δὴ καὶ τῶν ἀρχαιοπλούτων πολὺ ἐψευσμένοι καὶ τῶν νεωστὶ ἐν δόξῃ γεγενημένων. (Lysias, Speeches, 62:1)

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

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