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γραφεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: γραφεύς

Structure: γραφευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: gra/fw

Sense

  1. a painter

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἑξῆσ δὲ μετὰ τήνδε τὴν εἰκόνα ἕτερον δρᾶμα γέγραπται δικαιότατον, οὗ τὸ ἀρχέτυπον ὁ γραφεὺσ παρ’ Εὐριπίδου ἢ Σοφοκλέουσ δοκεῖ μοι λαβεῖν ἐκεῖνοι γὰρ ὁμοίαν ἔγραψαν τὴν εἰκόνα. (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 23:1)
  • σεμνὸν δέ τι ὁ γραφεὺσ ἐπενόησεν, τὸ μὲν ἀσεβὲσ τῆσ ἐπιχειρήσεωσ δείξασ μόνον καὶ ὡσ ἤδη πεπραγμένον παραδραμών, ἐμβραδύνοντασ δὲ τοὺσ νεανίσκουσ ἐργασάμενοσ τῷ τοῦ μοιχοῦ φόνῳ. (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 23:3)
  • ἢ περιμένετε ἔστ’ ἂν γραφεύσ τισ ἐπελθὼν ἀπεικάσῃ ὑμᾶσ οἱούσ τοὺσ ἐν τῷ δεσμωτηρίῳ ἑταίρουσ τῷ Σωκράτει παραγράφουσιν; (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 17:5)
  • μᾶλλον δὲ τὸν ἄριστον τῶν γραφέων Ὅμηρον παρόντοσ Εὐφράνοροσ καὶ Ἀπελλοῦ δεδέγμεθα· (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 8:1)
  • ταῦτα μὲν οὖν πλαστῶν καὶ γραφέων καὶ ποιητῶν παῖδεσ ἐργάσονται. (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 9:1)
  • οἴκτιρον ἡμᾶσ, ὡσ γραφεύσ τ’ ἀποσταθεὶσ ἰδοῦ με κἀνάθρησον οἷ’ ἔχω κακά. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode, iambics 2:6)
  • ἐπειδὴ δὲ ἐλθόντα ποτὲ ἀπέκλεισα ‐ Καλλίδησ γὰρ ὁ γραφεὺσ ἔνδον ἦν δέκα δραχμὰσ πεπομφώσ ‐ τὸ μὲν πρῶτον ἀπῆλθέ μοι λοιδορησάμενοσ· (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. a painter

Related

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

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