Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

μετάπεμπτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μετάπεμπτος μετάπεμπτον

Structure: μεταπεμπτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from metape/mpw

Sense

  1. sent for

Examples

  • ἐν δὲ τῷ Βρεντεσίῳ νεῶν πέντε μακρῶν ἐκ Μακεδονίασ οἱ μεταπέμπτων γενομένων ἐπιβᾶσα ἀνήγετο· (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 6 1:4)

Synonyms

  1. sent for

Related

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

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