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δημόσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δημόσιος

Structure: δημοσι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. belonging to the people or state, confiscated
  2. a public servant, the public crier, a public notary
  3. the state
  4. any public building, a public hall
  5. the treasury
  6. the public prison
  7. state-property
  8. the tent of the Spartan kings
  9. at the public expense, by public consent, by the executioner
  10. at the public cost

Examples

  • Ὁ μέντοι τοῦ Τιμοθέου λόγοσ οὐκ αὐληταῖσ οὐδὲ Ἁρμονίδῃ μόνον εἰρῆσθαί μοι δοκεῖ, ἀλλὰ πᾶσιν ὅσοι δόξησ ὀρέγονται δημόσιόν τι ἐπιδεικνύμενοι, τοῦ παρὰ τῶν πολλῶν ἐπαίνου δεόμενοι. (Lucian, Harmonides 7:1)
  • "ἀμήχανον δέ τι τὸ τάχοσ ἐπιδείκνυνται, ἐπειδάν τι τοιοῦτον γένηται δημόσιον ἐν βραχεῖ γὰρ ἀφειδοῦσι πάντων. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:19)
  • τὸ μέντοι ὁπλοφορεῖν ἀεὶ καὶ ἀκινάκην παρεζῶσθαι περιττὸν ἐν εἰρήνῃ οἰόμεθα εἶναι, καὶ πρόστιμὸν γ’ ἔστιν, ὅστισ ἐν ἄστει σιδηροφοροίη μηδὲν δέον ἢ ὅπλα ἐξενέγκοι εἰσ τὸ δημόσιον. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 34:6)
  • ἥ γέ τοι πόλισ ἅπασα κεχηνότεσ αὐτοῦ ἀκούουσιν, ὁπόταν δημηγορήσων παρέλθῃ, ὁποῖόν φασι τοὺσ τότε Ἀθηναίουσ πρὸσ τὸν τοῦ Κλεινίου πεπονθέναι, παῤ ὅσον τοῖσ μὲν οὐκ εἰσ μακρὰν μετεμέλησε τοῦ ἔρωτοσ, ὃν ἠράσθησαν τοῦ Ἀλκιβιάδου, τοῦτον δὲ ἡ πόλισ οὐ φιλεῖ μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ αἰδεῖσθαι ἤδη ἀξιοῖ, καὶ ὅλωσ ἓν τοῦτο ἡμῖν δημόσιον ἀγαθόν ἐστι καὶ μέγα ὄφελοσ ἅπασιν, ἁνὴρ οὗτοσ. (Lucian, Scytha 23:3)
  • ἢν δὲ πένησ ἐσθῆτα ἢ ἄργυρον ἢ χρυσὸν παρὰ τὴν δύναμιν πέμψῃ πλουσίῳ, τὸ μὲν πεμφθὲν ἔστω δημόσιον καὶ καταπραθὲν ἐμβαλλέσθω εἰσ τὸν θησαυρὸν τοῦ Κρόνου, ὁ δὲ πένησ ἐσ τὴν ὑστεραίαν πληγὰσ παρὰ τοῦ πλουσίου λαμβανέτω τῷ νάρθηκι εἰσ τὰσ χεῖρασ οὐκ ἐλάττουσ διακοσίων καὶ πεντήκοντα. (Lucian, Saturnalia, 3:6)

Synonyms

  1. the state

  2. the public prison

  3. at the public expense

  4. at the public cost

Related

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

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