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ἰαμβειοφάγος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἰαμβειοφάγος

Etym.: from i)ambei=os

Sense

  1. a glutton at iambics, a murderer of them

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ ἐπειδὴ φανερῶσ ἤδη τὰ πλοῖ’ ἐσεσύλητο, Χερρόνησοσ ἐπορθεῖτο, ἐπὶ τὴν Ἀττικὴν ἐπορεύεθ’ ἅνθρωποσ, οὐκέτ’ ἐν ἀμφισβητησίμῳ τὰ πράγματ’ ἦν, ἀλλ’ ἐνειστήκει πόλεμοσ, ὅ τι μὲν πώποτ’ ἔπραξ’ ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν ὁ βάσκανοσ οὗτοσ ἰαμβειοφάγοσ, οὐκ ἂν ἔχοι δεῖξαι, οὐδ’ ἔστιν οὔτε μεῖζον οὔτ’ ἔλαττον ψήφισμ’ οὐδὲν Αἰσχίνῃ περὶ τῶν συμφερόντων τῇ πόλει. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 207:4)

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

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