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λωποδύτης

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λωποδύτης λωποδύτου

Structure: λωποδυτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: lw=pos, du/w

Sense

  1. one who slips into another's clothes, a clothes-stealer
  2. a thief, robber, footpad

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

  • ἐπεὶ τῶν γε ἄλλων ἕνεκα οὐκ ἂν οἶμαι μέμψαιτό μοι, ὡσ θοἰμάτιον τοῦτο τὸ Ἑλληνικὸν περισπάσασ αὐτοῦ βαρβαρικόν τι μετενέδυσα, καὶ ταῦτα βάρβαροσ αὐτὸσ εἶναι δοκῶν ἠδίκουν γὰρ ἂν τὰ τοιαῦτα εἰσ αὐτὸν παρανομῶν καὶ τὴν πάτριον ἐσθῆτα λωποδυτῶν. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 34:7)
  • ὅτε δὴ κατῆλθ’ Εὐριπίδησ, ἐπεδείκνυτο τοῖσ λωποδύταισ καὶ τοῖσι βαλλαντιοτόμοισ καὶ τοῖσι πατραλοίαισι καὶ τοιχωρύχοισ, ὅπερ ἔστ’ ἐν Αἵδου πλῆθοσ, οἱ δ’ ἀκροώμενοι τῶν ἀντιλογιῶν καὶ λυγισμῶν καὶ στροφῶν ὑπερεμάνησαν κἀνόμισαν σοφώτατον· (Aristophanes, Frogs, Episode29)
  • κἀγὼ νομίσασ ὄρθρον ἐχώρουν Ἀλιμουντάδε, κἄρτι προκύπτω ἔξω τείχουσ καὶ λωποδύτησ παίει ῥοπάλῳ με τὸ νῶτον· (Aristophanes, Birds, Agon, epirrheme29)
  • ἣν ὁ μὲν Πύθιοσ ἑστίαν τῆσ Ἑλλάδοσ ἀνεκήρυξε, πρυτανεῖον δὲ Ἑλλάδοσ ὁ δυσμενέστατοσ Θεόπομποσ ὁ φήσασ ἐν ἄλλοισ πλήρεισ εἶναι τὰσ Ἀθήνασ Διονυσοκολάκων καὶ ναυτῶν καὶ λωποδυτῶν, ἔτι δὲ ψευδομαρτύρων καὶ συκοφαντῶν καὶ ψευδοκλητήρων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 652)
  • σὺ δ’ οὐ σοφόσ, ὃσ τὸν Ἔρωτα ἀλλοτρίαν σπείρων λωποδύτην ἀπάγεισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 82 2:4)
  • ὁ μέντοι κυβευτὴσ καὶ ὁ λωποδύτησ καὶ ὁ λῃστὴσ τῶν ἀνελευθέρων εἰσίν· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4 39:1)
  • ἀλλ’ οὐδ’ ἂν τῶν ἕνδεκα γενόμενοσ ἀποδέξαιο, εἴ τισ ἀπάγοι τινὰ φάσκων θοἰμάτιον ἀποδεδύσθαι ἢ τὸν χιτωνίσκον ἐκδεδύσθαι, ἀλλ’ ἀφείησ ἂν τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον, ὅτι οὐ λωποδύτησ ὀνομάζεται. (Lysias, Speeches, 13:1)

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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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