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φιλαλήθης

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλαλήθης φιλαλήθες

Structure: φιλαληθη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. loving truth

Examples

  • συνέστη δὲ καθ’ ἡμᾶσ διδασκαλεῖον Ἡροφιλείων ἰατρῶν μέγα ὑπὸ Ζεύξιδοσ, καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα Ἀλεξάνδρου τοῦ Φιλαλήθουσ, καθάπερ ἐπὶ τῶν πατέρων τῶν ἡμετέρων ἐν Σμύρνῃ τὸ τῶν Ἐρασιστρατείων ὑπὸ Ἱκεσίου· (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 8 32:2)

Synonyms

  1. loving truth

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

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