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μηλοβότης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μηλοβότης μηλοβότου

Structure: μηλοβοτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: = mhloboth/r, Pind., Eur.

Sense

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

  • ὡσ γὰρ τῶν θηρίων ἑτέροισ ἀφ’ ἑτέρων παρεσκεύασε τὴν τροφὴν εἶναι καὶ οὐ πάντα σαρκοφαγεῖν ἢ σπερμολογεῖν ἢ ῥιζωρυχεῖν ἐποίησεν, οὕτω τοῖσ ἀνθρώποισ ποικίλασ πρὸσ τὸν βίον ἀφορμὰσ ἔδωκε, μηλοβότᾳ τ’ ἀρότᾳ τ’ ὀρνιχολόχῳ τε καὶ ὃν πόντοσ τρέφει. (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 13 5:2)
  • μηλοβότᾳ τ’ ἀρότᾳ τ’ ὀρνιχολόχῳ τε καὶ ὃν πόντοσ τρέφει δεῖ δὲ τὸ πρόσφορον ἑαυτοῖσ ἑλομένουσ καὶ διαπονοῦντασ ἐᾶν τὰ τῶν ἄλλων, καὶ μὴ τὸν Ἡσίοδον ἐλέγχειν ἐνδεέστερον εἰπόντα καὶ κεραμεὺσ κεραμεῖ κοτέει καὶ τέκτονι τέκτων. (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 13 16:1)
  • μισθὸσ γὰρ ἄλλοισ ἄλλοσ ἐφ’ ἔργμασιν ἀνθρώποισ γλυκύσ, μηλοβότᾳ τ’ ἀρότᾳ τ’ ὀρνιχολόχῳ τε καὶ ὃν πόντοσ τρέφει· (Pindar, Odes, isthmian odes, isthmian 1 15:1)

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

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