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ἐθελόδουλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐθελόδουλος ἐθελόδουλον

Structure: ἐθελοδουλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a willing slave

Examples

  • τοὺσ δέ γε, εἶπον, τῶν ἀρχόντων κατηκόουσ προπηλακίζει ὡσ ἐθελοδούλουσ τε καὶ οὐδὲν ὄντασ, τοὺσ δὲ ἄρχοντασ μὲν ἀρχομένοισ, ἀρχομένουσ δὲ ἄρχουσιν ὁμοίουσ ἰδίᾳ τε καὶ δημοσίᾳ ἐπαινεῖ τε καὶ τιμᾷ. (Plato, Republic, book 8 421:1)

Synonyms

  1. a willing slave

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

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