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κληρωτός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κληρωτός κληρωτή κληρωτόν

Structure: κληρωτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. appointed by lot

Examples

  • αὗται μὲν οὖν αἱ ἀρχαὶ κληρωταί τε καὶ κύριαι τῶν εἰρημένων πράξεων εἰσίν. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 55 1:1)
  • αἱ δὲ κληρωταὶ ἀρχαὶ πρότερον μὲν ἦσαν αἱ μὲν μετ’ ἐννέα ἀρχόντων ἐκ τῆσ φυλῆσ ὅλησ κληρούμεναι, αἱ δ’ ἐν Θησείῳ κληρούμεναι διῃροῦντο εἰσ τοὺσ δήμουσ· (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 62 1:1)
  • αὗται γὰρ αἱ ἀρχαὶ κληρωταί τε ἦσαν ἐκ παλαιοῦ, καὶ δι’ αὐτῶν οἱ δοκιμασθέντεσ ἀνέβαινον εἰσ Ἄρειον πάγον. (Plutarch, , chapter 9 3:2)
  • τί δ’, ἂν ἄρα δεῖ γὰρ ἅπαντα ἡμᾶσ ἐξετάσαι ἅτεροσ ἡμῶν πείσασ τὸν ἕτερον, ἐὰν λάχῃ, παραδοῦναι αὑτῷ τὴν ἀρχήν, οὕτω κληρῶται, τὸ δυοῖν πινακίοιν τὸν ἕνα κληροῦσθαι τί ἄλλ’ ἐστίν; (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 15:1)

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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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