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βωμολόχος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: βωμολόχος βωμολόχη βωμολόχον

Structure: βωμολοχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: loxa/w

Sense

  1. one that lurked about the altars for the scraps that could be got there, a half-starved beggar
  2. one who would do any dirty work to get a meal, a lick-spittle, low jester, buffoon, ribald trick, vulgar

Examples

  • καὶ πρὸσ τούτοισ γάστριδασ ἡμῶν ὄντασ μᾶλλον καὶ λωποδύτασ καὶ βωμολόχουσ κἀνδραποδιστάσ. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Parabasis, pnigos2)
  • αὐλητὴν καὶ τοὺσ ἄλλουσ τοὺσ εἰθισμένουσ αὐτῷ συμπίνειν περιήγετο γὰρ πανταχοῦ τοὺσ τοιούτουσ ὁ Φίλιπποσ καὶ κατασκευασάμενοσ ἦν ὄργανα πολλὰ συμποσίου καὶ συνουσίασ, ὢν γὰρ φιλοπότησ καὶ τὸν τρόπον ἀκόλαστοσ καὶ βωμολόχουσ εἶχε περὶ αὑτὸν συχνοὺσ καὶ τῶν περὶ τὴν μουσικὴν ὄντων καὶ τῶν τὰ γέλοια λεγόντων, πιὼν δὲ τὴν νύκτα πᾶσαν καὶ μεθυσθεὶσ ἐπὶ πολὺ καὶ παραπαίσασ ἀφεὶσ ἅπαντασ τοὺσ ἄλλουσ ἀπαλλάττεσθαι ἤδη πρὸσ ἡμέραν ἐκώμαζεν ὡσ τοὺσ πρέσβεισ τοὺσ τῶν Ἀθηναίων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 46 2:1)

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

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