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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

  • πρὸσ ταῦτα ὁ καλὸσ ἡμῶν ἑστιάτωρ Λαρήνσιοσ καὶ αὐτὸσ ἔφη· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 511)
  • δὲ ἑκάστησ ἡμέρασ μετὰ τοὺσ παρ’ ἡμῶν καινοὺσ αἰεὶ λεγομένουσ λόγουσ καὶ ἀκροάματα ἑκάστοτε διάφορα ἐπεισάγει ὁ λαμπρὸσ ἡμῶν ἑστιάτωρ Λαρήνσιοσ ἔτι τε καὶ γελωτοποιούσ, φέρε λέγωμέν τι καὶ ἡμεῖσ περὶ τούτων, καίτοι γε οἶδα καὶ Ἀνάχαρσιν τὸν Σκύθην ἐν συμποσίῳ γελωτοποιῶν εἰσαχθέντων ἀγέλαστον διαμείναντα, πιθήκου δ’ ἐπεισαχθέντοσ γελάσαντα φάναι, ὡσ οὗτοσ μὲν φύσει γελοῖόσ ἐστιν, ὁ δ’ ἄνθρωποσ ἐπιτηδεύσει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 21)
  • καὶ γὰρ τὰσ γαμετὰσ ὁ καλὸσ ἡμῶν ἑστιάτωρ ἐπαινῶν Ἕρμιππον ἔφη ἐν τοῖσ περὶ Νομοθετῶν ἱστορεῖν ὅτι ἐν Λακεδαίμονι εἰσ οἴκημά τι σκοτεινὸν πᾶσαι ἐνεκλείοντο αἱ κόραι, συνεγκλειομένων καὶ τῶν ἀγάμων νεανίσκων καὶ ἕκαστοσ ἧσ ἐπιλάβοιτο, ταύτην ἀπῆγεν ἄπροικον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 21)
  • "ὥσπερ οὖν, ὦ ἑταῖρ’, ὁ κάμνουσι πολλοῖσ ἴσα φάρμακα μέτροισ ἀκριβέσι καὶ σταθμοῖσ διανέμων παγγέλοιοσ, οὕτω τοιοῦτοσ ἑστιάτωρ οἱο͂σ ἀνθρώπουσ οὔτε διψῶντασ ὡσαύτωσ οὔτε πεινῶντασ εἰσ ταὐτὸ συναγαγὼν ἀπὸ τῶν ἴσων θεραπεύειν ἅπαντασ, ἀριθμητικῶσ οὐ γεωμετρικῶσ ὁρίζων τὸ δίκαιον καὶ μέτριον. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 2, 3:9)
  • ὅταν δ’ ὁ νομοθέτησ ὡσ ἑστιάτωρ διέλῃ αὐτάσ, οὐ θέλεισ καὶ αὐτὸσ ἴδιον μέροσ ζητεῖν, ἀλλὰ τὸ ἀλλότριον ὑφαρπάζεισ καὶ λιχνεύεισ; (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 10:2)

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

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