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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

  • τῶν οὖν μεγαλομίσθων ἑταιρῶν ἀποτρέπω σε, γραμματικώτατε, διότι τὰσ μὲν ἄλλασ ἔστιν αὐλούσασ ἰδεῖν αὐλητρίδασ πάσασ Ἀπόλλωνοσ νόμον, Διὸσ νόμον αὗται δὲ μόνον αὐλοῦσιν Ιἕρακοσ νόμον, Ἐπικράτησ φησὶν ἐν Ἀντιλαίδι, ἐν ᾧ δράματι καὶ περὶ τῆσ πολυθρυλήτου Λαίδοσ τάδε λέγει· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 261)

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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