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δεκατάλαντος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δεκατάλαντος δεκατάλαντη δεκατάλαντον

Structure: δεκαταλαντ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ta/lanton

Sense

  1. worth ten talents, in which the damages were laid at ten talents

Declension

First/Second 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

  • οὗτοι δὲ οἱ λάροι τῇ πενίᾳ συνέστωσαν, ἣν προτιμῶσιν ἡμῶν, καὶ διφθέραν παρ’ αὐτῆσ λαβόντεσ καὶ δίκελλαν ἀγαπάτωσαν ἄθλιοι τέτταρασ ὀβολοὺσ ἀποφέροντεσ, οἱ δεκαταλάντουσ δωρεὰσ ἀμελητὶ προϊέμενοι. (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 12:4)
  • ἐν παισὶ μὲν γὰρ ὢν ἐκλήθη δι’ αἰσχρουργίαν τινὰ καὶ κιναιδίαν Βάταλοσ, ἐκ παίδων δὲ ἀπαλλαττόμενοσ καὶ δεκαταλάντουσ δίκασ ἑκάστῳ τῶν ἐπιτρόπων λαγχάνων, Ἀργᾶσ, ἀνὴρ δὲ γενόμενοσ προσείληφε τὴν τῶν πονηρῶν κοινὴν ἐπωνυμίαν, συκοφάντησ. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 994)

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

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