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ἀρχιτρίκλινος

Second declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀρχιτρίκλινος

Sense

  1. the president of a banquet (triclinium)

Examples

  • ὡσ δὲ ἐγεύσατο ὁ ἀρχιτρίκλινοσ τὸ ὕδωρ οἶνον γεγενημένον, καὶ οὐκ ᾔδει πόθεν ἐστίν, οἱ δὲ διάκονοι ᾔδεισαν οἱ ἠντληκότεσ τὸ ὕδωρ, φωνεῖ τὸν νυμφίον ὁ ἀρχιτρίκλινοσ καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ Πᾶσ ἄνθρωποσ πρῶτον τὸν καλὸν οἶνον τίθησιν, καὶ ὅταν μεθυσθῶσιν τὸν ἐλάσσω· (, chapter 1 65:1)

Synonyms

  1. the president of a banquet

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

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