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ἔμπορος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔμπορος ἔμπορον

Structure: ἐμπορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)n, po/ros, cf. pera/w

Sense

  1. one who goes on shipboard as a passenger
  2. any one on a journey, a traveller, wanderer
  3. a merchant, trader, a trafficker

Examples

  • καὶ ἤκουσεν Ἁβραὰμ τοῦ Ἐφρών, καὶ ἀποκατέστησεν Ἁβραὰμ τῷ Ἐφρὼν τὸ ἀργύριον, ὃ ἐλάλησεν εἰσ τὰ ὦτα τῶν υἱῶν Χέτ, τετρακόσια δίδραχμα ἀργυρίου δοκίμου ἐμπόροισ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 23:16)
  • τίσ δὲ τοῖσ ἐμπόροισ καὶ τοῖσ βιβλιοκαπήλοισ ἤρισεν ἂν περὶ παιδείασ τοσαῦτα βιβλία ἔχουσι καὶ πωλοῦσιν; (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 4:7)
  • τοῖσ δὲ δὴ ἐμπόροισ καλῶσ εἶχε μὴ κοτυλίζειν, ἀλλ’ ἁθρόα τὰ φορτία πεπρᾶσθαι, ἐκεῖνοί τε διδόντεσ δι’ ἄλλην οὐ μισθὸν παρῆγον ἀλλὰ τὴν ἀγορὰν ἐν ὁλκάσι, <καὶ> ἄνδρα ταμίαν ἐπέστησαν ἐφ’ ἑκάστῃ τῶν νεῶν. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 2 39:2)
  • τοῖσ δ’ ἐμπόροισ προεῖπεν, ὃν ἄν τισ λάβῃ χαλκόν, τούτου πάλιν ἀγοράζειν τά τ’ ἐκ τῆσ χώρασ ὤνια καὶ τὰ ἐκ τῶν λειῶν ἀγόμενα· (Aristotle, Economics, Book 2 84:3)
  • οἱ δ’ ἔφασαν ἐλάσσονοσ ἢ ὅσου ἂν τοῖσ ἐμπόροισ ἐπώλουν. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 2 121:2)

Synonyms

  1. one who goes on shipboard as a passenger

Related

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

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