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ἀσσάριον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀσσάριον

Structure: ἀσσαρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

Declension

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

  • οὐ γὰρ ἦν ἀναγκαῖον ἀνθρώπῳ γογγυλίδασ ἥδιστον ὄψον πεποιημένῳ καὶ δι’ αὑτοῦ ταύτασ ἕψοντι, ματτούσησ ἅμα τῆσ γυναικὸσ ἄλφιτα, τοσαῦτα περὶ ἀσσαρίου θρυλεῖν καὶ γράφειν ἀφ’ ἧσ ἄν τισ ἐργασίασ τάχιστα πλούσιοσ γένοιτο, μέγα γὰρ τὸ εὐτελὲσ καὶ αὔταρκεσ, ὅτι τῆσ ἐπιθυμίασ ἅμα καὶ τῆσ φροντίδοσ ἀπαλλάττει τῶν περιττῶν, διὸ καὶ τοῦτό φασιν ἐν τῇ Καλλίου δίκῃ τὸν Ἀριστείδην εἰπεῖν, ὡσ αἰσχύνεσθαι πενίαν προσήκει τοῖσ ἀκουσίωσ πενομένοισ, τοῖσ δ’, ὥσπερ αὐτὸσ, ἑκουσίωσ, ἐγκαλλωπίζεσθαι. (Plutarch, Comparison of Aristides with Marcus Cato, chapter 4 5:1)
  • "ἐμοὶ δέ, παῖ δωρόδειπνε, ἀσσαρίου κανδήλασ πρίω, ἵνα κἀγὼ κατὰ τὸν καλὸν Ἀγάθωνα ἀναφωνήσω τάδε τὰ τοῦ ἡδίστου Ἀριστοφάνουσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, compendium in ce 2:1)
  • ὅλωσ δὲ μηδὲν εὐώνον εἶναι τῶν περιττῶν, ἀλλ’ οὗ τισ οὐ δεῖται, κἂν ἀσσαρίου πιπράσκηται, πολλοῦ νομίζειν· (Plutarch, Marcus Cato, chapter 4 4:2)
  • οὐχὶ δύο στρουθία ἀσσαρίου πωλεῖται; (, chapter 1 385:1)

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

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