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δασμολόγος

Second declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δασμολόγος

Etym.: dasmo/s, le/gw

Sense

  1. a tax-gatherer

Examples

  • τοιαῦτα δ’ εἰπόντοσ οἱ ἀρχαῖοι περὶ αὐτοῦ πάλιν ἄλλουσ εἰρήκασι λόγουσ ὑπεναντίουσ τούτοισ, ὡσ τυραννικόσ τε γένοιτο καὶ βίαιοσ καὶ δασμολόγοσ, τραγῳδοῦντεσ τὰ περὶ τὸν Μινώταυρον καὶ τὸν λαβύρινθον καὶ τὰ Θησεῖ συμβάντα καὶ Δαιδάλῳ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 4 11:58)

Synonyms

  1. a tax-gatherer

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

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