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ἐμβάτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐμβάτης ἐμβάτου

Structure: ἐμβατ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: e)mbai/nw

Sense

  1. a half-boot of felt

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ^ οὐ ταὐτὰ οὖν καὶ σὺ ποιεῖσ χωλὴν μὲν ἔχων καὶ συκίνην τὴν γνώμην, ὠνούμενοσ δὲ χρυσοῦσ ἐμβάτασ, οἷσ μόλισ ἄν τισ καὶ ἀρτίπουσ ἐμπεριπατήσειεν; (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 6:4)
  • ἀλλ’, ὦ γενναιότατε φιλοσόφων Τιμόκλεισ, εἰ ταῦτα ποιοῦντεσ οἱ τραγῳδοὶ πεπείκασί σε, ἀνάγκη δυοῖν θάτερον, ἤτοι Πῶλον καὶ Ἀριστόδημον καὶ Σάτυρον ἡγεῖσθαί σε θεοὺσ εἶναι τότε ἢ τὰ πρόσωπα τῶν θεῶν αὐτὰ καὶ τοὺσ ἐμβάτασ καὶ τοὺσ ποδήρεισ χιτῶνασ καὶ χλαμύδασ καὶ χειρῖδασ καὶ προγαστρίδια καὶ τἆλλα οἷσ ἐκεῖνοι σεμνύνουσι τὴν τραγῳδίαν, ὅπερ καὶ γελοιότατον ἐπεὶ καθ’ ἑαυτὸν ὁπόταν ὁ Εὐριπίδησ, μηδὲν ἐπειγούσησ τῆσ χρείασ τῶν δραμάτων, τὰ δοκοῦντὰ οἱ λέγῃ, ἀκούσῃ αὐτοῦ τότε παρρησιαζομένου, ὁρᾷσ τὸν ὑψοῦ τόνδ’ ἄπειρον αἰθέρα καὶ γῆν πέριξ ἔχονθ’ ὑγραῖσ ἐν ἀγκάλαισ ; (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 41:4)
  • καὶ οἱ μὲν ὑποδησάμενοι ἐμβάτασ τῆσ τύχησ χορηγούσησ ἐντραγῳδοῦσιν ἡμῖν, οἱ πολλοὶ δὲ πεζῇ καὶ χαμαὶ βαδίζομεν δυνάμενοι ἄν, εὖ ἴσθι, μὴ χεῖρον αὐτῶν ὑποκρίνεσθαι καὶ διαβαίνειν, εἴ τισ καὶ ἡμᾶσ ἐνεσκεύασε παραπλησίωσ ἐκείνοισ. (Lucian, Saturnalia, letter 1 1:9)
  • ἔδοξα δὲ καὶ δὴ ἐπὶ τέλει τοῦ δράματοσ εἶναι, καὶ τοὺσ ἐμβάτασ ἀποτίθεσθαι, καὶ τὰσ κρηπῖδασ μεταλήψεσθαι τοῦ πατρόσ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 10:1)

Synonyms

  1. a half-boot of felt

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

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