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ἑστιάτωρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἑστιάτωρ ἑστιάτορος

Structure: ἑστιατωρ (Stem)

Etym.: from e(stia/w

Sense

  1. one who gives a banquet, a host, the citizen whose turn it was to give a dinner to his tribe

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

  • οἱ δὲ πολλοί, κἂν ἐν ἀρχῇ τὸν ἀγαθὸν καὶ φρόνιμον ἀπορρίψωσιν, ὕστερον καταμανθάνοντεσ τὴν ἀλήθειαν αὐτοῦ καὶ τὸ ἦθοσ τοῦτον ἡγοῦνται μόνον πολιτικὸν καὶ δημοτικὸν καὶ ἄρχοντα, τῶν δ’ ἄλλων τὸν μὲν χορηγὸν τὸν δ’ ἑστιάτορα τὸν δὲ γυμνασίαρχον καὶ νομίζουσι καὶ καλοῦσιν. (Plutarch, Praecepta gerendae reipublicae, chapter, section 31 18:1)
  • πάνυ γὰρ οὖν καλῶσ σὺν ἄλλοισ πλείοσιν Ὅμηροσ, ἐμοὶ δοκεῖν, καὶ τοῦτο ἔφη, ὡσ οὐχ ἅπαντασ παρὰ τοῦ Διὸσ ἔχοντασ τὸ σκῆπτρον οὐδὲ τὴν ἀρχὴν ταύτην, ἀλλὰ μόνον τὸν ἀγαθόν, οὐδὲ ἐπ’ ἄλλοισ τισὶ δικαίοισ ἤ τῷ βουλεύεσθαι καὶ φροντίζειν ὑπὲρ τῶν ἀρχομένων, οὐχ ὥστε ἀκολασταίνειν καὶ σπαθᾶν, ἀνοίασ καὶ ὕβρεωσ καὶ ὑπερηφανίασ καὶ πάσησ ἀνομίασ ἀποπιμπλάντα ἐξ ἅπαντοσ αὑτοῦ τὴν ψυχὴν τεταραγμένην ὀργαῖσ τε καὶ λύπαισ καὶ φόβοισ καὶ ἡδοναῖσ καὶ παντοίαισ ἐπιθυμίαισ, ἀλλ’ ὡσ οἰο͂́ν τε προσέχοντα τὸν νοῦν αὑτῷ καὶ τοῖσ ὑπηκόοισ, νομέα καὶ ποιμένα τῷ ὄντι τῶν λαῶν γιγνόμενον, οὐχ ἑστιάτορα καὶ δαιτυμόνα, ὡσ ἔφη τισ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 14:1)
  • ὅταν οὖν συνεσθίῃσ ἑτέρῳ, μέμνησο, μὴ μόνον τὴν πρὸσ τὸ σῶμα ἀξίαν τῶν παρακειμένων ὁρᾶν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν πρὸσ τὸν ἑστιάτορα αἰδῶ φυλάξαι. (Epictetus, Works, chapter 36 1:2)
  • καὶ τοίνυν καὶ θυσιῶν μόνῳ τούτῳ θεῷ διαφερόντωσ κοινωνοῦσιν ἄνθρωποι τὴν ἀκριβῆ κοινωνίαν, καλοῦντέσ τε ἐφ’ ἑστίαν καὶ προϊστάμενοι δαιτυμόνα αὐτὸν καὶ ἑστιάτορα, ὥστε ἄλλων ἄλλουσ ἐράνουσ πληρούντων κοινὸσ ἁπάντων ἐράνων οὗτόσ ἐστι πληρωτὴσ, συμποσιάρχου τάξιν ἔχων τοῖσ ἀεὶ κατὰ ταυτὸν συλλεγομένοισ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 8:6)

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

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