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λαφυροπώλης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: λαφυροπώλης λαφυροπώλου

Structure: λαφυροπωλ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: pwle/w

Sense

  1. a seller of booty, one who has bought up booty to retail

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

  • ἐξαιρέσεισ καὶ τἄλλα τἀκόλουθ’ ὅσα οὔτ’ ἀριθμὸν οὔτε ἔλεγχον ἐφ’ ἑαυτῶν ἔχει, περικόμματοσ δὲ τάξιν ἢ θέσιν φέρει, εἰσ αὔριον σὲ κἀμὲ ταῦτ’ εὐφρανάτω λαφυροπώλῃ παντάπασι μεταδίδου, τὴν πάροδον ἵν’ ἔχῃσ τῶν θυρῶν εὐνουστέραν τί δεῖ λέγειν με πολλὰ πρὸσ συνειδότα; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 27 2:2)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ κελεύσαντοσ αὐτοῦ τοὺσ αἰχμαλώτουσ γυμνοὺσ πωλεῖν ἐπίπρασκον οἱ λαφυροπῶλαι, καὶ τῆσ μὲν ἐσθῆτοσ ἦσαν ὠνηταὶ πολλοί, τῶν δὲ σωμάτων λευκῶν καὶ ἁπαλῶν παντάπασι διὰ τὰσ σκιατραφίασ κατεγέλων ὡσ ἀχρήστων καὶ μηδενὸσ ἀξίων· (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 131)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ τὰ ληφθέντα χρήματα ἀπήγαγον οἵ τε Παφλαγόνεσ καὶ ὁ Σπιθριδάτησ, ὑποστήσασ Ἡριππίδασ ταξιάρχουσ καὶ λοχαγοὺσ ἀφείλετο ἅπαντα τόν τε Σπιθριδάτην καὶ τοὺσ Παφλαγόνασ, ἵνα δὴ πολλὰ ἀπαγάγοι τὰ αἰχμάλωτα τοῖσ λαφυροπώλαισ. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 1 29:1)

Related

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

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