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φιλέταιρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλέταιρος φιλέταιρον

Structure: φιλεταιρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. fond of one's comrades or partisans, true to them

Examples

  • τόλμα μὲν γὰρ ἀλόγιστοσ ἀνδρεία φιλέταιροσ ἐνομίσθη· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 177)
  • φιλέταιροσ δὲ πρῶτοσ μὲν ἐκτήσατο τὴν περὶ Πέργαμον ἀρχὴν καὶ κατέσχεν εὐνοῦχοσ ὤν, κατέστρεψε δὲ τὸν βίον ὀγδοήκοντα ἐτῶν γενόμενοσ. (Lucian, Macrobii, (no name) 12:4)
  • Φιλέταιροσ δ’ ἐν Ἀσκληπιῷ πρὸσ τῷ ὀψοφαγεῖν καὶ κυβεύειν αὐτόν φησι, καθάπερ καὶ Καλλίαν τὸν ῥήτορα Ἀξιόνικοσ ἐν Φιλευριπίδῃ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 27 2:6)
  • Φιλέταιροσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 38 2:1)
  • Νικόστρατοσ ἢ Φιλέταιροσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 712)

Related

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

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