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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

  • ἐπὶ τοίνυν τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἄρχοντοσ ὅθ’ οὗτοσ ἐβούλευεν, ταμίασ ἦν τῶν τῆσ θεοῦ Ἡγήσανδροσ ὁ Κρωβύλου ἀδελφόσ, ἔκλεπτον δὲ τῆσ πόλεωσ κοινῇ καὶ μάλα φιλεταίρωσ χιλίασ δραχμάσ. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 1101)

Related

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

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