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ἐπιστολεύς?

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration: epistoleus

Principal Part: ἐπιστολεύς ἐπιστολέως

Structure: ἐπιστολευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from ἐπιστολή

Sense

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

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐπιστολεύς ἐπιστολή ἐπιστολής
Genitive ἐπιστολέως ἐπιστολέοιν ἐπιστολέων
Dative ἐπιστολεί ἐπιστολέοιν ἐπιστολεῦσι(ν)
Accusative ἐπιστολέα ἐπιστολή ἐπιστολέας
Vocative ἐπιστολεύ ἐπιστολή ἐπιστολής

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

Similar forms

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

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