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μελλητής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μελλητής μελλητοῦ

Structure: μελλητ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: me/llw

Sense

  1. a delayer, loiterer

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

  • ὁρμήσασ γὰρ ἦν ἐνεργὸσ καὶ δραστήριοσ, τολμῆσαι δὲ μελλητὴσ καὶ ἄτολμοσ. (Plutarch, , chapter 16 8:2)
  • κλοπῆσ δὲ ἱματίων αὐτῷ τοῦ Ἀγρίππου ἐπικαλουμένησ, καὶ ἀκριβῶσ δὲ ἐκεκλόφει, φυγὼν καὶ ληφθεὶσ ἀγωγῆσ αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ Πείσωνα γενομένησ, ὃσ ἦν φύλαξ τῆσ πόλεωσ, ἐρομένου τὴν αἰτίαν τῆσ φυγῆσ Καίσαρί φησιν ἀπορρήτουσ ἔχειν λόγουσ εἰπεῖν ἐπ’ ἀσφαλείᾳ τῆσ σωτηρίασ αὐτοῦ φέροντασ, ὥστε δήσασ αὐτὸν ἔστελλεν εἰσ τὰσ Καπρέασ, καὶ Τιβέριοσ τῷ αὑτοῦ τρόπῳ χρώμενοσ εἶχεν αὐτὸν δέσμιον, μελλητὴσ εἰ καί τισ ἕτεροσ βασιλέων ἢ τυράννων γενόμενοσ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 18 206:1)

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

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