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κυβευτής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κυβευτής κυβευτοῦ

Structure: κυβευτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: kubeu/w

Sense

  1. a dicer, gambler

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

  • "καὶ ὁ Κόμβων εἰσ κυβευτὴν σκώπτων τὸν Ῥοδοφῶντα ἔλεγεν ὦ γέρον, ἦ μάλα δή σε νέοι τείρουσι κυβευταί. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 633)
  • Εἂν δὲ ἀστρονόμοσ εἶναί τισ ὑπισχνῆται καὶ σαφέστατα ἐπίστασθαι τὰσ περιόδουσ καὶ πορείασ καὶ τὰ ἀποστήματα πῶσ ἔχουσι πρὸσ ἄλληλα ἡλίου τε καὶ σελήνησ καὶ τῶν τοιούτων ἄστρων καὶ τὰ οὐράνια πάθη, μηδὲν δὲ τοιοῦτον ᾖ προῃρημένοσ μηδὲ περὶ ταῦτα φροντίζων, ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον συνὼν τοῖσ κυβεύουσι καὶ μετ̓ ἐκείνων ἑκάστοτε ζῶν καὶ βλεπόμενοσ, ἀστρονόμον τοῦτον φήσεισ ἢ κυβευτήν; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 6:2)
  • εἰ δὲ μή, κυβευτὴν ἀνάγκη καὶ ῥᾳδιουργόν, ὅστισ ἐνεχόμενόσ τινι αὐτὸσ κακῷ ἐπιτιμήσει τοῖσ ἄλλοισ. (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 93:2)

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

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