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μεταίτιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μεταίτιος μεταίτιον

Structure: μεταιτι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. being in part the cause of, accessory to, who were accessory

Examples

  • ὅσ μ’ ἐξοτρύνει παῖδ’ ἐμὸν πεῖσαι λιταῖσ νεκρῶν κομιστὴν ἢ λόγοισιν ἢ δορὸσ ῥώμῃ γενέσθαι καὶ τάφου μεταίτιον, μόνον τόδ’ ἔργον προστιθεὶσ ἐμῷ τέκνῳ πόλει τ’ Ἀθηνῶν. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 1:6)
  • τόνδε γὰρ μεταίτιον μόνον βροτῶν ἔφασκε τοῦδ’ εἶναι πάθουσ· (Sophocles, Trachiniae, choral 2:6)
  • τῶν δὲ πᾶν γὰρ ἦν τὸ πλῆθοσ μεταίτιον, οὐκ ἐδέκοντο τοὺσ λόγουσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 200 2:2)
  • τὸν δὲ δῆμον τῶν Μεγαρέων οὐκ ἐόντα μεταίτιον τοῦ πολέμου τούτου οὐδὲ προσδεκόμενον κακὸν οὐδὲν πείσεσθαι, ἀγαγὼν καὶ τούτουσ ἐσ τὰσ Συρηκούσασ ἀπέδοτο ἐπ’ ἐξαγωγῇ ἐκ Σικελίησ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 156 3:4)

Synonyms

  1. being in part the cause of

Related

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

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