Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

φιλόσιτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλόσιτος φιλόσιτον

Structure: φιλοσιτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. fond of corn, occupied about it
  2. fond of food, fond of eating

Examples

  • λέγεισ, ἔφην ἐγώ, ὦ Ἰσχόμαχε, τῷ ὄντι φύσει τὸν πατέρα φιλογέωργον εἶναι οὐδὲν ἧττον ἢ οἱ ἔμποροι φιλόσιτοί εἰσι. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 20 28:1)

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

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