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ἡμιμναῖον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡμιμναῖον ἡμιμναῖου

Structure: ἡμιμναι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. a half-mina

Declension

Second 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

  • ἔφερε δὲ ἕκαστοσ κατὰ μῆνα τῶν συσσίτων ἀλφίτων μέδιμνον, οἴνου χόασ ὀκτώ, τυροῦ πέντε μνᾶσ, σύκων ἡμιμναῖα πέντε, πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ εἰσ ὀψωνίαν μικρόν τι κομιδῇ νομίσματοσ· (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 12 2:1)
  • οὗτοσ γὰρ ἔδωκεν, μᾶλλον δ’ ἐν τῇ τούτου οἰκίᾳ ἐδόθη τρί’ ἡμίμναια τούτῳ τῷ ἀδωροδοκήτῳ ὑπὲρ τοῦ ψηφίσματοσ ὃ Ἀντιμέδων ἔγραψε τοῖσ Τενεδίοισ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 53:2)

Synonyms

  1. a half-mina

Related

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

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