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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

  • κᾆτ’ ἐκ τούτων ἡ πόλισ ἡμῶν ὑπογραμματέων ἀνεμεστώθη καὶ βωμολόχων δημοπιθήκων ἐξαπατώντων τὸν δῆμον ἀεί, λαμπάδα δ’ οὐδεὶσ οἱο͂́σ τε φέρειν ὑπ’ ἀγυμνασίασ ἔτι νυνί. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Agon, Antipnigos3)

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

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