Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

φιλάργυρος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλάργυρος φιλάργυρον

Structure: φιλαργυρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. fond of money, covetous

Examples

  • ἐπιβάλλουσαν ὅμοιόν τι τοῖσ ἀνελευθέροισ καὶ φιλαργύροισ πάσχειν, οἳ πολλὰ συνάγοντεσ οὐ χρῶνται παροῦσιν ἀλλὰ θρηνοῦσι καὶ δυσφοροῦσιν ἀπολομένων. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad uxorem, section 9 6:1)
  • πάλιν δὲ ὅταν ἐντύχωσι τῶν τοιούτων τισὶ μοχθηροῖσ καὶ δειλοῖσ καὶ φιλαργύροισ, ὀλίγου ἄξιόν φασι τὸ πρᾶγμα · (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 35:2)

Synonyms

  1. fond of money

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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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