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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

  • "παρεσκευασάμην γὰρ εἰσ τοὺσ χόασ, ὥσθ’ ἕκαστον ὑμῶν λαβεῖν ἡμιμναῖον· (Plutarch, Praecepta gerendae reipublicae, chapter, section 25 1:2)
  • ἐπὶ τούτοισ ὁ μὲν Τιγράνησ ἠγάπησε, καὶ τῶν Ῥωμαίων ἀσπασαμένων αὐτόν βασιλέα περιχαρὴσ γενόμενοσ ἐπηγγείλατο στρατιώτῃ μὲν ἡμιμναῖον ἀργυρίου δώσειν, ἑκατοντάρχῃ δὲ μνᾶσ δέκα, χιλιάρχῳ δὲ τάλαντον ὁ δ’ υἱὸσ ἐδυσφόρει, καὶ κληθεὶσ ἐπὶ δεῖπνον οὐκ ἔφη Πομπηϊού δεῖσθαι τοιαῦτα τιμῶντοσ· (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 33 5:1)
  • ἐγένετο δὲ καὶ Ἱππονίκῳ ἑξακόσια ἀνδράποδα κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον τοῦτον ἐκδεδομένα, ἃ προσέφερε μνᾶν ἀτελῆ τῆσ ἡμέρασ, Φιλημονίδῃ δὲ τριακόσια <ἃ> ἡμιμναῖον, ἄλλοισ δέ γε ὡσ, οἰόμαι, δύναμισ ἑκάστοισ ὑπῆρχεν. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 4 17:1)

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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