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δωροδόκος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δωροδόκος δωροδόκον

Structure: δωροδοκ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: de/xomai

Sense

  1. taking presents or bribes

Examples

  • τῷ δὴ περὶ χρήματα ἐλαττουμένῳ τιμὴν ἀπονέμουσι καὶ τῷ δωροδόκῳ χρήματα· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 8 157:1)

Related

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

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