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κολαστής

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κολαστής κολαστοῦ

Structure: κολαστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: kola/zw

Sense

  1. a chastiser, punisher

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

  • "ἐνίοισ γὰρ ἀμέλει καὶ κολασταῖσ ἑτέρων πονηρῶν οἱο͂ν δημοκοίνοισ ἀπεχρήσατο τὸ δαιμόνιον, εἶτ’ ἐπέτριψε, καθάπερ οἶμαι τοὺσ πλείστουσ τυράννουσ. (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 7 3:5)
  • οὐ γὰρ ὡσ τυράννοισ τισὶν ἢ δεινοῖσ κολασταῖσ ὁμιλοῦσα τηνικαῦτα ἡ ψυχὴ περίλυπόσ ἐστι καὶ ταπεινὴ καὶ δύσθυμοσ, ὅπερ εἰκὸσ ἦν· (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 21 6:3)
  • ἢ μᾶλλον, ὃ λέγουσιν ἔνιοι Ῥωμαίων, ἀληθέσ ἐστι καί, καθάπερ οἱ περὶ Χρύσιππον οἰόνται φιλόσοφοι φαῦλα δαιμόνια περινοστεῖν, οἷσ οἱ θεοὶ δημίοισ χρῶνται καὶ κολασταῖσ ἐπὶ τοὺσ ἀνοσίουσ καὶ ἀδίκουσ ἀνθρώπουσ, οὕτωσ οἱ Λάρητεσ ἐριννυώδεισ τινέσ εἰσι καὶ ποίνιμοι δαίμονεσ, ἐπίσκοποι βίων καὶ οἴκων; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 513)

Synonyms

  1. a chastiser

Related

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

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