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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

  • τῶν γὰρ οἰκετῶν ὁ μέν που δυοῖν μναῖν ἄξιόσ ἐστιν, ὁ δὲ οὐδ’ ἡμιμναίου, ὁ δὲ πέντε μνῶν, ὁ δὲ καὶ δέκα· (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 5 3:2)
  • ἐγὼ γοῦν βουλοίμην ἂν τὸν μέν τινα φίλον μοι εἶναι μᾶλλον ἢ δύο μνᾶσ, τὸν δ’ οὐδ’ ἂν ἡμιμναίου προτιμησαίμην, τὸν δὲ καὶ πρὸ δέκα μνῶν ἑλοίμην ἄν, τὸν δὲ πρὸ πάντων χρημάτων, καὶ πόνων πριαίμην ἂν φίλον μοι εἶναι. (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 5 4:2)

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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