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ἑρμοκοπίδης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἑρμοκοπίδης ἑρμοκοπίδου

Structure: ἑρμοκοπιδ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: ko/ptw

Sense

  1. a Hermes-mutilator

Declension

First 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

  • εἰ σωφρονεῖτε, θαἰμάτια λήψεσθ’, ὅπωσ τῶν Ἑρμοκοπιδῶν μή τισ ὑμᾶσ ὄψεται. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Choral, anapests18)
  • εἷσ δ’ αὐτῶν ἐρωτώμενοσ ὅπωσ τὰ πρόσωπα τῶν Ἑρμοκοπιδῶν γνωρίσειε, καὶ ἀποκρινάμενοσ ὅτι πρὸσ τὴν σελήνην, ἐσφάλη τοῦ παντόσ, ἕνησ καὶ νέασ οὔσησ ὅτε ταῦτ’ ἐδρᾶτο· (Plutarch, , chapter 20 5:2)
  • οὐ μὴν ὅ γε δῆμοσ τὴν ὀργὴν ἅπασαν ἀφῆκεν ἐνταῦθα, ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον ἀπαλλαγεὶσ τῶν Ἑρμοκοπιδῶν ὥσπερ σχολάζοντι τῷ θυμῷ πρὸσ τὸν Ἀλκιβιάδην ὅλοσ ἐρρύη, καὶ τέλοσ ἀπέστειλε τὴν Σαλαμινίαν ἐπ’ αὐτόν, οὐ φαύλωσ αὐτό γε τοῦτο προστάξασ, μὴ βιάζεσθαι μηδ’ ἅπτεσθαι τοῦ σώματοσ, ἀλλὰ τῷ μετρίῳ λόγῳ χρῆσθαι κελεύοντασ ἀκολουθεῖν ἐπὶ κρίσιν καὶ πείθειν τὸν δῆμον. (Plutarch, , chapter 21 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. a Hermes-mutilator

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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