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φιλοθεάμων

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλοθεάμων φιλοθεάμον

Structure: φιλοθεαμων (Stem)

Sense

  1. fond of seeing, fond of shows, plays or spectacles

Examples

  • ἆρ’ οὖν, ἐπεὶ φιλομαθέσ τι κέκτηται καὶ φιλοθέαμον ἡμῶν ἡ ψυχὴ φύσει, λόγον ἔχει ψέγειν τοὺσ καταχρωμένουσ τούτῳ πρὸσ τὰ μηδεμιᾶσ ἄξια σπουδῆσ ἀκούσματα καὶ θεάματα, τῶν δὲ καλῶν καὶ ὠφελίμων παραμελοῦντασ; (Plutarch, , chapter 1 2:1)
  • "καὶ αὐτὸσ ἀπολύω τὸ φιλήκοον καὶ φιλοθέαμον οὐ μὴν Ἀριστοξένῳ γε συμφέρομαι παντάπασι, ταύταισ μόναισ φάσκοντι ταῖσ ἡδοναῖσ τὸ καλῶσ ἐπιλέγεσθαι. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 7, 7:1)

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

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