Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • οἱ μὲν οὖν τῷ γελοίῳ ὑπερβάλλοντεσ βωμολόχοι δοκοῦσιν εἶναι καὶ φορτικοί, γλιχόμενοι πάντωσ τοῦ γελοίου, καὶ μᾶλλον στοχαζόμενοι τοῦ γέλωτα ποιῆσαι ἢ τοῦ λέγειν εὐσχήμονα καὶ μὴ λυπεῖν τὸν σκωπτόμενον· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4 142:3)
  • ἐπιπολάζοντοσ δὲ τοῦ γελοίου, καὶ τῶν πλείστων χαιρόντων τῇ παιδιᾷ καὶ τῷ σκώπτειν μᾶλλον ἢ δεῖ, καὶ οἱ βωμολόχοι εὐτράπελοι προσαγορεύονται ὡσ χαρίεντεσ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4 144:2)

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

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