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ξέστης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ξέστης ξέστου

Structure: ξεστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. pint

Declension

First 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

  • καὶ παρ’ οὐδὲν ἐλθὼν καταποντωθῆναι, τύχῃ τινὶ παραλόγῳ σωθεὶσ ἄρτι τεθνηκότοσ τοῦ Καιπίωνοσ, ἐμπαθέστερον ἔδοξεν ἢ φιλοσοφώτερον ἐνεγκεῖν τὴν συμφοράν, οὐ μόνον κλαυθμοῖσ καὶ περιπτύξεσι τοῦ νεκροῦ καὶ βαρύτητι λύπησ, ἀλλὰ καὶ δαπάνῃ περὶ τὴν ταφὴν καὶ πραγματείαισ θυμιαμάτων καὶ ἱματίων πολυτελῶν συγκατακαέντων καὶ μνήματοσ ξεστοῦ λίθων Θασίων ἀπὸ ταλάντων ὀκτὼ κατασκευασθέντοσ ἐν τῇ Αἰνίων ἀγορᾷ. (Plutarch, Cato the Younger, chapter 11 2:1)
  • ἦν δὲ ἡ μὲν κρηπὶσ λίθου ξεστοῦ κογχυλιάτου, τὸ εὖροσ πεντήκοντα ποδῶν καὶ τὸ ὕψοσ πεντήκοντα. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 4 11:4)
  • ὣσ οἱ μὲν προπάροιθε θυράων ὑψηλάων οὐδοῦ ἔπι ξεστοῦ πανθυμαδὸν ὀκριόωντο. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 18 4:1)
  • "ὦ φίλοι, οὐ γὰρ σχήσει ἀνὴρ ὅδε χεῖρασ ἀάπτουσ, ἀλλ’ ἐπεὶ ἔλλαβε τόξον ἐύ̈ξοον ἠδὲ φαρέτρην, οὐδοῦ ἄπο ξεστοῦ τοξάσσεται, εἰσ ὅ κε πάντασ ἄμμε κατακτείνῃ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 22 11:1)
  • τῆσ μὲν γὰρ μῆκοσ εἰσὶ πέντε στάδιοι, εὖροσ δὲ δέκα ὀργυιαί, ὕψοσ δέ, τῇ ὑψηλοτάτη ἐστὶ αὐτὴ ἑωυτῆσ, ὀκτὼ ὀργυιαί, λίθου δὲ ξεστοῦ καὶ ζῴων ἐγγεγλυμμένων· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 124 5:1)

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

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