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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)
  • Ἐξ ἘπιστολήΣ οὐκοῦν πρὶν μὲν εἰρήνησ τυχεῖν, εἰ καὶ συμμαχία προσγένοιτ’ αὐτῷ, γράψειν ὡμολόγει ἡλίκα τὴν πόλιν εὖ ποιήσει· (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 52:8)
  • καὶ ἐντυγχάνει αὐτῷ κατὰ τὴν ὁδὸν ὅ τε παῖσ τοῦ Σουσίων σατράπου καὶ παρὰ Φιλοξένου ἐπιστολεύσ. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 3, chapter 16 6:1)
  • παρὰ δὲ Ἱπποκράτουσ τοῦ Μινδάρου ἐπιστολέωσ εἰσ Λακεδαίμονα γράμματα πεμφθέντα ἑάλωσαν εἰσ Ἀθήνασ λέγοντα τάδε· (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 1 24:1)
  • οἱ δὲ Λακεδαιμόνιοι ἔδοσαν τὸν Λύσανδρον ὡσ ἐπιστολέα, ναύαρχον δὲ Ἄρακον· (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 1 8:2)
  • 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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