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βαλανεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: βαλανεύς

Structure: βαλανευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. a bath-man

Declension

Third 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

  • ἀλλ’ ὁ βαλανεὺσ ἕλξει θύραζ’ αὐτὸν λαβὼν τῶν ὀρχιπέδων· (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode 2:58)
  • εἰ δ’ ἐγὼ ὀρθὸσ ἰδεῖν βίον ἀνέροσ ἢ τρόπον ὅστισ ἔτ’ οἰμώξεται, οὐ πολὺν οὐδ’ ὁ πίθηκοσ οὗτοσ ὁ νῦν ἐνοχλῶν, Κλειγένησ ὁ μικρόσ, ὁ πονηρότατοσ βαλανεὺσ ὁπόσοι κρατοῦσι κυκησιτέφρου ψευδολίτρου κονίασ καὶ Κιμωλίασ γῆσ, χρόνον ἐνδιατρίψει· (Aristophanes, Frogs, Parabasis, antistrophe1)
  • ’ τοῦ δὲ βαλανέωσ ἐν Καρδίᾳ ῥύμμα γῆν μοχθηρὰν καὶ ὕδωρ ἁλμυρὸν παρέχοντοσ, πολιορκεῖσθαι ἔφη κατὰ γῆν καὶ κατὰ θάλατταν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 44 2:2)
  • ἐν Φασήλιδι δὲ πρὸσ τὸν παῖδα διαμφισβητοῦντοσ τοῦ βαλανέωσ περὶ τοῦ ἀργυρίου ἦν γὰρ νόμοσ πλείονοσ λούειν τοὺσ ξένουσ ’ ὦ μιαρέ , ’ ἔφη, ’ παῖ, παρὰ χαλκοῦν με μικροῦ Φασηλίτην ἐποίησασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 45 1:3)
  • οὐδὲν εὖ πάσχων, ὥσπερ ὄνοσ βαλανέωσ ξύλα καὶ φρύγανα κατακομίζων, ἀεὶ καπνοῦ τε καί τέφρασ ἀναπιμπλάμενοσ λουτροῦ δὲ μὴ μετέχων μηδ’ ἀλέασ μηδὲ καθαρειότητοσ. (Plutarch, De cupiditate divitiarum, section 5 13:1)
  • κβ# πόρνη καὶ βαλανεὺσ τωὐτὸν ἔχουσ1’ ἐμπεδέωσ ἔθοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 50 7:6)
  • ταῦτα εἰπὼν ὁ Θρασύμαχοσ ἐν νῷ εἶχεν ἀπιέναι, ὥσπερ βαλανεὺσ ἡμῶν καταντλήσασ κατὰ τῶν ὤτων ἁθρόον καὶ πολὺν τὸν λόγον· (Plato, Republic, book 1 385:1)

Synonyms

  1. a bath-man

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

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