Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • ἐπιμέλεια δὲ καλὴ μὲν αὐτῶν τῶν ἀδελφῶν, ἔτι δὲ καλλίων πενθεροῖσ καὶ γαμβροῖσ τοῖσ ἐκείνων εὔνουν ἀεὶ παρέχειν εἰσ ἅπαντα καὶ πρόθυμον ἑαυτόν, οἰκέτασ τε φιλοδεσπότουσ ἀσπάζεσθαι καὶ φιλοφρονεῖσθαι, καὶ χάριν ἔχειν ἰατροῖσ θεραπεύσασιν αὐτοὺσ καὶ φίλοισ πιστοῖσ καὶ προθύμωσ συνδιενεγκοῦσιν ἀποδημίαν ἢ στρατείαν· (Plutarch, De fraterno amore, section 211)

Related

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

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