Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἐμπολαῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐμπολαῖος ἐμπολαῖη ἐμπολαῖον

Structure: ἐμπολαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from e)mpola/w

Sense

  1. concerned in traffic

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ ἐμπολαῖον. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode 1:20)
  • εἶναι πρότερον, οἶμαι δὲ μηδὲ νῦν, ἀλλ’ ἀμουσίᾳ καὶ ἀπειροκαλίᾳ τὸν κοινὸν Ἑρμῆν ἐμπολαῖον καὶ ἔμμισθον γενέσθαι. (Plutarch, Maxime cum principbus philosopho esse diserendum, chapter, section 2 6:1)
  • πρὸσ ταῦτα Πελοποννησίων μὲν τοῖσι ἐν τέλεϊ ἐοῦσι ἐδόκεε τῶν μηδισάντων ἐθνέων τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν τὰ ἐμπολαῖα ἐξαναστήσαντασ δοῦναι τὴν χώρην Ιὤσι ἐνοικῆσαι, Ἀθηναίοισι δὲ οὐκ ἐδόκεε ἀρχὴν Ιὠνίην γενέσθαι ἀνάστατον οὐδὲ Πελοποννησίοισι περὶ τῶν σφετερέων ἀποικιέων βουλεύειν· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 9, chapter 106 4:1)
  • ἀλλὰ μὴν ἥ γε πρὸσ Ἑρμῆν κοινωνία τῆσ θεοῦ παντὶ δήλη, ὅστισ Ἑρμῆν καλεῖ λόγιον καὶ ἀγοραῖον καὶ ἐμπολαῖον· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 6:9)

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

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