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μεσοβασιλεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μεσοβασιλεύς μεσοβασιλέως

Structure: μεσοβασιλευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. interrex, one who holds kingly power between

Declension

Third 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

  • Ὡσ δ’ οὖν ἐξωμόσαντο τὴν ἀρχὴν οἱ περὶ τὸν Φλαμίνιον, διὰ τῶν καλουμένων μεσοβασιλέων ὕπατοσ ἀποδείκνυται Μάρκελλοσ, καὶ παραλαβὼν τὴν ἀρχὴν ἀποδείκνυσιν αὑτῷ συνάρχοντα Γναῖον Κορνήλιον. (Plutarch, Marcellus, chapter 6 1:2)
  • ἔπειτα μεσοβασιλέων αἱρεθέντων, οἷσ ἐπιτρέπει τὸ συνέδριον ἐκ τῶν ἀξίων τῆσ ἀρχῆσ διαγνῶναι τὸν ἐπιτηδειότατον· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 4, chapter 80 3:4)
  • τίνα μεσοβασιλέων διάγνωσιν; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 4, chapter 80 5:3)
  • μεσοβασιλέων δ’ αὐτοῖσ μηθὲν ἐν τῷ παρόντι δεῖν, οὓσ ἐν ταῖσ μοναρχίαισ ἀποδείκνυσθαι μονογνώμονασ τῶν μελλόντων ἄρξειν ἔθοσ ἦν, ἐχούσησ τῆσ πόλεωσ τὴν ὅσιον ἀρχήν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 5, chapter 71 6:1)

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

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