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ἐπιστολεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιστολεύς ἐπιστολέως

Structure: ἐπιστολευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from e)pistolh/

Sense

  1. secretary, a courier
  2. a vice-admiral

Declension

Third 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

  • ἐπεὶ δὲ νόμοσ ἦν οὐκ ἐῶν δὶσ τὸν αὐτὸν ναυαρχεῖν, ἐβούλοντό τε χαρίζεσθαι τοῖσ συμμάχοισ οἱ Λακεδαιμόνιοι, τὸ μὲν ὄνομα τῆσ ναυαρχίασ Ἀράκῳ τινὶ περιέθεσαν, τὸν δὲ Λύσανδρον ἐπιστολέα τῷ λόγῳ, τῷ δ’ ἔργῳ κύριον ἁπάντων ἐξέπεμψαν. (Plutarch, , chapter 7 2:2)
  • οἱ δὲ Λακεδαιμόνιοι ἔδοσαν τὸν Λύσανδρον ὡσ ἐπιστολέα, ναύαρχον δὲ Ἄρακον· (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 1 8:2)
  • ὁ δ’ αὖ Ιἕραξ τὰσ μὲν ἄλλασ ναῦσ λαβὼν πάλιν ἔπλει εἰσ Ῥόδον, ἐν Αἰγίνῃ δὲ τριήρεισ δώδεκα κατέλιπε καὶ Γοργώπαν τὸν αὑτοῦ ἐπιστολέα ἁρμοστήν. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 1 8:1)
  • ὁ δὲ Ἀνταλκίδασ ἐπεὶ ἀφίκετο εἰσ Αἴγιναν, συμπαραλαβὼν τὰσ τοῦ Γοργώπα ναῦσ ἔπλευσεν εἰσ Ἔφεσον, καὶ τὸν μὲν Γοργώπαν πάλιν ἀποπέμπει εἰσ Αἴγιναν σὺν ταῖσ δώδεκα ναυσίν, ἐπὶ δὲ ταῖσ ἄλλαισ Νικόλοχον ἐπέστησε τὸν ἐπιστολέα. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 1 9:2)

Synonyms

  1. secretary

  2. a vice-admiral

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

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