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βούλαρχος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: βούλαρχος βούλαρχη βούλαρχον

Structure: βουλαρχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. chief of the senate
  2. adviser of a plan

Examples

  • Δαναὸσ δὲ πατὴρ καὶ βούλαρχοσ καὶ στασίαρχοσ τάδε πεσσονομῶν κύδιστ’ ἀχέων ἐπέκρανε, φεύγειν ἀνέδην διὰ κῦμ’ ἅλιον, κέλσαι δ’ Ἄργουσ γαῖαν, ὅθεν δὴ γένοσ ἡμέτερον τῆσ οἰστροδόνου βοὸσ ἐξ ἐπαφῆσ κἀξ ἐπιπνοίασ Διὸσ εὐχόμενον τετέλεσται. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, episode, lyric 1:3)
  • πέμψον δὲ πρόφρων δεῦρ’ ἡμέτερον πατέρ’ εὐθαρσῆ Δαναόν, πρόνοον καὶ βούλαρχον. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, episode, anapests2)

Synonyms

  1. chief of the senate

  2. adviser of a plan

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

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