Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • Ἱππίασ ὁ Ἀθηναῖοσ τὰ ὑπερέχοντα τῶν ὑπερῴων εἰσ τὰσ δημοσίασ ὁδοὺσ καὶ τοὺσ ἀναβαθμοὺσ καὶ τὰ προφράγματα καὶ τὰσ θύρασ τὰσ ἀνοιγομένασ ἔξω ἐπώλησεν· (Aristotle, Economics, Book 2 29:1)
  • δέομαι δὲ ὑμῶν Δελφὸσ καὶ αὐτὸσ ὢν καὶ τὸ ἴσον μετέχων τῆσ τε δημοσίασ εὐκλείασ, εἰ φυλάττοιτο, καὶ τῆσ ἐναντίασ δόξησ, εἰ ἐκ τῶν παρόντων προσγένοιτο, μήτ’ ἀποκλείειν τὸ ἱερὸν τοῖσ εὐσεβοῦσι μήτε τὴν πόλιν πρὸσ ἅπαντασ ἀνθρώπουσ διαβάλλειν ὡσ τὰ πεμπόμενα τῷ θεῷ συκοφαντοῦσαν καὶ ψήφῳ καὶ δικαστηρίῳ δοκιμάζουσαν τοὺσ ἀνατιθέντασ· (Lucian, Phalaris, book 2 3:1)
  • πλείστασ δὲ καὶ φυγὼν δημοσίασ δίκασ καὶ διώξασ πολλὰσ μὲν εἷλε, πάσασ δ’ ἀπέφυγε, πρόβλημα τοῦ βίου καὶ δραστήριον ὄργανον ἔχων τὸν λόγον, ᾧ δικαιότερον ἄν τισ ἢ τύχῃ καὶ δαίμονι τοῦ ἀνδρὸσ τὸ μηδὲν παθεῖν παρ’ ἀξίαν ἀνατιθείη. (Plutarch, Comparison of Aristides with Marcus Cato, chapter 2 4:1)
  • τί δή ποτε οὖν ἐπὶ μὲν τοῖσ ὀλίγοισ ἱππεῦσι καὶ οὐδεμίαν οὔτε δόξαν οὔτε δύναμιν τῇ πόλει κτησαμένοισ τάσ τε ταφὰσ ἀνοίγει τὰσ δημοσίασ ὁ συγγραφεὺσ καὶ τὸν ἐπιφανέστατον τῶν δημαγωγῶν Περικλέα τὴν ὑψηλὴν τραγῳδίαν ἐκείνην εἰσάγει διατιθέμενον· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 18 2:4)
  • ’ ἡ πόλισ ἡ τῶν Ταραντίνων σχεδὸν καθ’ ἕκαστον μῆνα βουθυτεῖ καὶ δημοσίασ ἑστιάσεισ ποιεῖται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 61 2:3)

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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