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κατόπτης?

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration: katoptēs

Principal Part: κατόπτης κατόπτου

Structure: κατοπτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: ὄψομαι, fut. of ὁράω

Sense

  1. a spy, scout
  2. an overseer

Declension

First 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

  • πρὸς εὐνὰς δ, ὡς ἐοίκεν, Ἕκτορος χωρεῖ, κατόπτας σημανῶν ἥκειν στρατοῦ. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode 1:23)
  • οὐδὲ θεῶν μακάρων ἄγε μάρτυρας οὐδὲ κατόπτας, μηνύειν δ ἐκέλευεν ἀναγκαίης ὑπὸ πολλῆς, πολλὰ δέ μ ἠπείλησε βαλεῖν ἐς Τάρταρον εὐρύν, οὕνεχ ὃ μὲν τέρεν ἄνθος ἔχει φιλοκυδέος ἥβης, αὐτὰρ ἐγὼ χθιζὸς γενόμην, τὰ δέ τ οἶδε καὶ αὐτός, οὔτι βοῶν ἐλατῆρι, κραταιῷ φωτί, ἐοικώς. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 40:4)
  • βουλευομένῳ δέ οἱ ἔδοξε ἐπὶ μὲν Καρχηδονίους τὸν ναυτικὸν στρατὸν ἀποστέλλειν, ἐπὶ δὲ Ἀμμωνίους τοῦ πεζοῦ ἀποκρίναντα, ἐπὶ δὲ τοὺς Αἰθίοπας κατόπτας πρῶτον, ὀψομένους τε τὴν ἐν τούτοισι τοῖσι Αἰθίοψι λεγομένην εἶναι ἡλίου τράπεζαν εἰ ἔστι ἀληθέως, καὶ πρὸς ταύτῃ τὰ ἄλλα κατοψομένους, δῶρα δὲ τῷ λόγῳ φέροντας τῷ βασιλέι αὐτῶν. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 3, chapter 17 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. a spy

  2. an overseer

Related

명사

형용사

동사

부사

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

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