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δεσμώτης

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δεσμώτης

Structure: δεσμωτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: desmo/w

Sense

  1. a prisoner, captive
  2. in chains, fettered

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

  • εἷσ γὰρ τῶν δεδεμένων, οὐκ οἶδ’ ὅθεν ῥίνησ εὐπορήσασ καὶ συνωμότασ πολλοὺσ τῶν δεσμωτῶν προσλαβών, ἀποπρίει τε τὴν ἅλυσιν ᾗ ἐδέδεντο ἑξῆσ, τῶν κλοιῶν εἰσ αὐτὴν διειρομένων, καὶ ἀπολύει ἅπαντασ· (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 32:2)
  • ἔτι δὲ πρυτανεῖον καὶ ὀρφανοὶ καὶ δεσμωτῶν φύλακεσ· (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 24 3:5)
  • ἀποκεκλεῖσθαι γὰρ αὐτὸ πάνυ ἀκριβῶσ, ὥσπερ εἴ τισ ἐν δεσμωτηρίῳ ῥίνην ἀποκρύψειεν, ὅπωσ μηδεὶσ τῶν δεσμωτῶν λαβὼν ἔπειτα λύσειεν ἑαυτόν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 37:2)
  • λαβόντεσ, ἔφη, τῶν δεσμωτῶν ἕνα τῶν ἐπὶ θανάτῳ καθίζουσιν εἰσ τὸν θρόνον τὸν τοῦ βασιλέωσ, καὶ τὴν ἐσθῆτα διδόασιν αὐτῷ τὴν βασιλικήν, καὶ προστάττειν ἐῶσι καὶ πίνειν καὶ τρυφᾶν καὶ ταῖσ παλλακαῖσ χρῆσθαι τὰσ ἡμέρασ ἐκείνασ ταῖσ βασιλέωσ, καὶ οὐδεὶσ οὐδὲν αὐτὸν κωλύει ποιεῖν ὧν βούλεται. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 78:1)
  • ἐσ δὴ τὸ ναυτικὸν τοῦτο ὡσ ἐσ ἤδη τινὰ ἰσχὺν συνέθεον, ὅσοι ἦσαν κατὰ μέρη τῆσ Ἀσίασ ἐπὶ τῶν ὑπηρεσιῶν, καὶ αὐτὸ ὁπλίταισ τε ἐξ ὧν ἐδύναντο ἀνεπλήρουν καὶ ἐρέταισ ἐκ θεραπόντων ἢ δεσμωτῶν, ἐπιπλέοντεσ δὲ ταῖσ νήσοισ καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν νησιωτῶν. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 1 2:5)

Synonyms

  1. a prisoner

  2. in chains

Related

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

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