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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

  • καὶ ἐντυγχάνει αὐτῷ κατὰ τὴν ὁδὸν ὅ τε παῖσ τοῦ Σουσίων σατράπου καὶ παρὰ Φιλοξένου ἐπιστολεύσ. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 3, chapter 16 6:1)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ οὗτοσ ἐν προσβολῇ τινι γενομένῃ ἀπέθανε, καὶ Πόλλισ αὖ ἐπιστολεὺσ ὢν τρωθεὶσ ἀπῆλθεν, Ἡριππίδασ ταύτασ ἀναλαμβάνει τὰσ ναῦσ. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 8 12:1)

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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