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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

  • λῦσαι γὰρ θάτερα, κύριον ποιήσαντα τὸ δικαστήριον πάντων, κληρωτὸν ὄν. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 2 304:3)
  • νῦν δ’ ἐπιτρέψαι με πείσασ Ἀρχένεῳ καὶ Δρακοντίδῃ καὶ Φάνῳ τουτῳί, τῷ νῦν ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ φεύγοντι τῶν ψευδομαρτυρίων, τούτουσ μὲν ἀφῆκεν ἀκούσασ αὐτῶν ὅτι, εἰ μεθ’ ὁρ́κου ταῦτα διαιτήσουσιν, καταγνώσονται τὴν ἐπιτροπήν, ἐπὶ τὸν κληρωτὸν δὲ διαιτητὴν ἐλθὼν καὶ οὐδὲν ἔχων ἀπολύσασθαι τῶν ἐγκεκλημένων ὦφλεν τὴν δίαιταν. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 77:2)

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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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