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εἰλαπιναστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: εἰλαπιναστής εἰλαπιναστοῦ

Structure: εἰλαπιναστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: from ei)lapi/nh

Sense

  1. a feaster, quest, boon-companion

Examples

  • κἀν Κύπρῳ δέ φησι τιμᾶσθαι Ἡγήσανδροσ ὁ Δελφὸσ Δία Εἰλαπιναστήν τε καὶ Σπλαγχνοτόμον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 74 4:1)
  • πρῶτοσ δ’ Ὅμηροσ, ὥσ τινέσ φασιν, εἰσήγαγε παράσιτον, τὸν Ποδῆν εἶναι λέγων φίλον εἰλαπιναστὴν τοῦ Ἕκτοροσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 29 1:4)

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

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