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φιλαθήναιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλαθήναιος φιλαθήναιον

Structure: φιλαθηναι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. fond of the Athenians

Examples

  • καὶ δῆτα φιλαθήναιοσ ἦν ὑπερφυῶσ, ὑμῶν τ’ ἐραστὴσ ἦν ἀληθὴσ ὥστε καὶ ἐν τοῖσι τοίχοισ ἔγραφ’, Ἀθηναῖοι καλοί. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Prologue 5:7)
  • τάχα δ’ ἂν διὰ τὸν χθιζινὸν ἄνθρωπον, ὃσ ἡμᾶσ διεδύετ’ ἐξαπατῶν καὶ λέγων ὡσ φιλαθήναιοσ ἦν καὶ τἀν Σάμῳ πρῶτοσ κατείποι, διὰ τοῦτ’ ὀδυνηθεὶσ εἶτ’ ἴσωσ κεῖται πυρέττων. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Parodos, antistrophe 11)
  • τοῖσ μὲν οὖν Ἕλλησιν οὐκ ἄτοποσ οὐδὲ φορτικὸσ συνηνέχθη τό γε πρῶτον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ παῖζον αὑτοῦ πρὸσ ἀκροάσεισ φιλολόγων καὶ θεασ ἀγώνων καὶ μυήσεισ ἔτρεπε, καὶ περὶ τὰσ κρίσεισ ἦν ἐπιεικήσ, καὶ φιλέλλην ἀκούων ἔχαιρεν, ἔτι δὲ μᾶλλον φιλαθήναιοσ προσαγορευόμενοσ, καὶ τῇ πόλει πλείστασ δωρεὰσ ἔδωκε. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 23 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. fond of the Athenians

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

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