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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

  • δεξαμένησ δὲ τῆσ βουλῆσ, καὶ ψηφισαμένησ ὅπωσ ὕπατοσ αἱρεθεὶσ ὁ Πομπήϊοσ ἄρχοι μόνοσ, εἰ δὲ αὐτὸσ συνάρχοντοσ δεηθείη, μὴ θᾶττον δυοῖν μηνοῖν δοκιμάσασ ἕλοιτο, κατασταθεὶσ οὕτωσ καὶ ἀποδειχθεὶσ διὰ Σουλπικίου μεσοβασιλέωσ ὕπατοσ ἠσπάζετο φιλοφρόνωσ τὸν Κάτωνα, πολλὴν ὁμολογῶν χάριν ἔχειν καὶ παρακαλῶν γίνεσθαι σύμβουλον ἰδίᾳ τῆσ ἀρχῆσ. (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 54 5:1)
  • ἑλομένησ δὲ τῆσ βουλῆσ μεσοβασιλεῖσ τῶν ἀρχαιρεσίων ἕνεκα, καὶ τοῦ δευτέρου μεσοβασιλέωσ συγκαλέσαντοσ εἰσ τὸ πεδίον τοὺσ λόχουσ, ἀποδείκνυται Καίσων Φάβιοσ ὁ τὰ ἀριστεῖα λαβὼν ἐκ τῆσ μάχησ, ἀδελφὸσ δὲ τοῦ τὴν ἀρχὴν ἀποθεμένου, τὸ τρίτον ὕπατοσ καὶ σὺν αὐτῷ Τῖτοσ Οὐεργίνιοσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 14 1:1)

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

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