Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

φιλόμυθος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλόμυθος φιλόμυθον

Structure: φιλομυθ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. fond of legends or fables
  2. fond of talking

Examples

  • ὁ δ’ ἀπορῶν καὶ θαυμάζων οἰέται ἀγνοεῖν διὸ καὶ ὁ φιλόμυθοσ φιλόσοφόσ πώσ ἐστιν· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 1 39:1)
  • φιλειδήμων γὰρ ἅνθρωποσ, προοίμιον δὲ τούτου τὸ φιλόμυθον. (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 2 16:2)

Synonyms

  1. fond of talking

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

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