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φιλογέωργος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλογέωργος φιλογέωργον

Structure: φιλογεωργ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. fond of a country life

Examples

  • σπείρω δ’ ἄρουραν δώδεχ’ ἡμερῶν ὁδὸν Βερέκυντα χῶρον οὗτοσ εἰ μὴ μόνον φιλογέωργοσ ἀλλὰ καὶ φιλάνθρωποσ ἦν, ἣδιον ἂν ἔσπειρε τὴν τοσούτουσ τρέφειν δυναμένην ἢ τὸ Ἀντισθένουσ ἐκεῖνο χωρίδιον, ὃ μόλισ Αὐτολύκῳ παλαίειν ἂν ἢρκεσε· (Plutarch, Maxime cum principbus philosopho esse diserendum, chapter, section 31)
  • καὶ ὁ σὸσ δὲ πατὴρ οὕτω πωσ ἐοίκε φιλογέωργοσ εἶναι. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 20 29:3)

Synonyms

  1. fond of a country life

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

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