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ἐξηγητής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐξηγητής ἐξηγητές

Structure: ἐξηγητη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from e)hge/omai

Sense

  1. one who leads on, an adviser
  2. an expounder, interpreter

Examples

  • τὰ γὰρ δὴ τοιαῦτα οὔτ’ ἐπιστάμεθα ἡμεῖσ οἰκίζοντέσ τε πόλιν οὐδενὶ ἄλλῳ πεισόμεθα, ἐὰν νοῦν ἔχωμεν, οὐδὲ χρησόμεθα ἐξηγητῇ ἀλλ’ ἢ τῷ πατρίῳ· (Plato, Republic, book 4 155:3)
  • μέλει δὲ τὰ ἐσ θυσίασ θεηκόλῳ τε, ὃσ ἐπὶ μηνὶ ἑκάστῳ τὴν τιμὴν ἔχει, καὶ μάντεσι καὶ σπονδοφόροισ, ἔτι δὲ ἐξηγητῇ τε καὶ αὐλητῇ καὶ τῷ ξυλεῖ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 15 15:5)

Synonyms

  1. one who leads on

  2. an expounder

Related

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

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