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φιλοδέσποτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλοδέσποτος φιλοδέσποτον

Structure: φιλοδεσποτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. loving one's lord or master, that hug their chains

Examples

  • Πέρσαι μὲν ὦν οὕτω ἐκφεύγουσι Σκύθαι δὲ διζήμενοι καὶ τὸ δεύτερον ἥμαρτον τῶν Περσέων, καὶ τοῦτο μὲν ὡσ ἐόντασ Ιὤνασ ἐλευθέρουσ κακίστουσ τε καὶ ἀνανδροτάτουσ κρίνουσι εἶναι ἁπάντων ἀνθρώπων, τοῦτο δέ, ὡσ δούλων ἐόντων τὸν λόγον ποιεύμενοι, ἀνδράποδα φιλοδέσποτα φασὶ εἶναι καὶ ἄδρηστα. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 142 1:1)

Related

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

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