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δεξίωμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: δεξίωμα

Structure: δεξιωματ (Stem)

Etym.: = deci/wsis

Sense

  1. a pledge of friendship

Declension

Third 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

  • ἀκούεισ δὲ καὶ τῶν ποιητῶν λεγόντων ὦ χρυσέ, δεξίωμα κάλλιστον καὶ χρυσὸσ γάρ ἐστιν ὃσ βροτῶν ἔχει κράτη. (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 14:16)
  • ὦ χρυσέ, δεξίωμα κάλλιστον βροτοῖσ· (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 41:6)
  • ’ οὗτοι γὰρ καὶ οἱ τοιοῦτοι μονονουχὶ βοῶντεσ ἀποθνῄσκουσιν ὦ χρυσέ, δεξίωμα κάλλιστον βροτοῖσ, ὡσ οὔτε μήτηρ ἡδονὰσ τοιάσδ’ ἔχει, οὐ παῖδεσ ἐν δόμοισιν,2 οὐ φίλοσ πατήρ, οἱάσ σὺ χοἰ σὲ δώμασιν κεκτημένοι, εἰ δ’ ἡ Κύπρισ τοιοῦτον ὀφθαλμοῖσ ὁρᾷ, οὐ θαῦμ’ Ἔρωτασ μυρίουσ αὐτὴν ἔχειν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 49 1:1)
  • καὶ ταῖσι Θήβαισ εἰ τανῦν εὐημερεῖ καλῶσ τὰ πρὸσ σέ, μυρίασ ὁ μυρίοσ χρόνοσ τεκνοῦται νύκτασ ἡμέρασ τ’ ἰών, ἐν αἷσ τὰ νῦν ξύμφωνα δεξιώματα δόρει διασκεδῶσιν ἐκ σμικροῦ λόγου· (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 2:5)
  • ταῦτα γὰρ πάντα καὶ ἔθνει καὶ πόλει πρὸσ ἄνδρα τοσούτων ἐπιστατοῦντα πραγμάτων δεξιώματα καὶ σύμβολα φιλίασ χρὴ δοκεῖν, ἣν ἀπέδωκασ τῷ Ιοὐδαίων ἔθνει τῆσ Ἡρώδου προξενούσησ αὐτὴν ἑστίασ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 16 64:1)

Synonyms

  1. a pledge of friendship

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

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