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φέριστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φέριστος φέριστη φέριστον

Structure: φεριστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: v. fe/rtatos.

Sense

Examples

  • τίσ πόθεν εἶσ ἀνδρῶν, πόσα τοι ἔτη ἐστί, φέριστε; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 4410)
  • Ἐτεόκλεεσ, φέριστε Καδμείων ἄναξ, ἥκω σαφῆ τἀκεῖθεν ἐκ στρατοῦ φέρων, αὐτὸσ κατόπτησ δ’ εἴμ’ ἐγὼ τῶν πραγμάτων· (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode 4:1)
  • παῖδα δ’ ἔδοξα, φέριστε, σαφὲσ δ’ οὐκ οἶδα, νοῆσαι, ὅσ τισ ὁ παῖσ, ἅμα βουσὶν ἐυκραίρῃσιν ὀπήδει νήπιοσ, εἶχε δὲ ῥάβδον· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 21:6)
  • μαντείην δέ, φέριστε, διοτρεφέσ, ἣν ἐρεείνεισ, οὔτε σὲ θέσφατόν ἐστι δαήμεναι οὔτε τιν’ ἄλλον ἀθανάτων· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 55:7)
  • τί δ’, ὦ φέριστε δεσποτῶν, ἁμαρτάνω; (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 1:9)

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

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