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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

  • ἀλλ’ ὅταν τισ ᾖ δειλὸσ καὶ ταπεινόσ, ὑπὲρ τούτου τί ἄλλο ἢ ἀνάγκη γράφειν ἐπιστολὰσ ὡσ ὑπὲρ νεκροῦ "τὸ πτῶμα ἡμῖν χάρισαι τοῦ δεῖνοσ καὶ ξέστην αἱματίου" 3; (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 33:1)
  • οὕτω δὲ ἐπέλιπε τὸν Ιὤραμον ἡ τῶν ἀναγκαίων εὐπορία, ὡσ δι’ ὑπερβολὴν τῆσ ἐνδείασ ἐν τῇ Σαμαρείᾳ πραθῆναι ὀγδοήκοντα μὲν ἀργυρῶν νομίσματοσ κεφαλὴν ὄνου, πέντε δὲ ἀργυρῶν νομίσματοσ ξέστην κόπρου περιστερῶν ἀντὶ ἁλῶν ὠνεῖσθαι τοὺσ Ἑβραίουσ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 9 78:1)
  • παρὰ δὲ ξεστὴν ἐτάνυσσε τράπεζαν, σῖτον δ’ αἰδοίη ταμίη παρέθηκε φέρουσα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 15 1:1)
  • παρὰ δὲ ξεστὴν ἐτάνυσσε τράπεζαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 76 1:2)
  • παρὰ δὲ ξεστὴν ἐτάνυσσε τράπεζαν. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 1 14:6)
  • παρὰ δὲ ξεστὴν ἐτάνυσσε τράπεζαν. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 4 6:3)
  • παρὰ δὲ ξεστὴν ἐτάνυσσε τράπεζαν. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 7 15:3)

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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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