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μεγαλόμισθος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μεγαλόμισθος μεγαλόμισθον

Structure: μεγαλομισθ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. receiving high pay

Examples

  • ἐπιτιμᾷ δὲ καὶ Ξέναρχοσ ἐν Πεντάθλῳ τοῖσ παραπλησίωσ σοι βιοῦσιν καὶ ἐσπουδακόσι περὶ τὰσ μεγαλομίσθουσ ἑταίρασ καὶ τὰσ ἐλευθέρασ τῶν γυναικῶν ταυτὶ λέγων δεινά, δεινὰ κοὐκ ἀνασχετὰ ἐν τῇ πόλει πράττουσιν οἱ νεώτεροι, ὅπου γὰρ οὐσῶν μειράκων μάλ’ εὐπρεπῶν ἐπὶ τοῖσι πορνείοισιν, ἃσ ἔξεσθ’ ὁρᾶν εἰληθερούσασ, στέρν’ ἀπημφιεσμένασ, γυμνὰσ ἐφεξῆσ τ’ ἐπὶ κέρωσ τεταγμένασ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 24 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. receiving high pay

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

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