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μητραγύρτης

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μητραγύρτης

Structure: μητραγυρτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. a begging priest of Cybele, the mother

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

  • "αὐτὸσ δὲ Διονύσιοσ τέλοσ μητραγυρτῶν καὶ τυμπανοφορούμενοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 58 2:12)
  • Ἀντιφάνησ δὲ ἐν μὲν Ἀλκήστιδι ἐλαίῳ τινὰ ποιεῖ χριόμενον τοὺσ πόδασ, ἐν δὲ Μητραγύρτῃ φησί· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 78 1:11)
  • εἰ τὰσ πρὸσ Ἀντίγονον, ἄνδρα πολεμιστὴν καὶ δραστήριον, διαλύσεισ ὑπεριδὼν Κλεομένησ κάθηται μητραγύρτου βασιλέωσ σχολὴν ἀναμένων, ὅταν πρῶτον ἀπόθηται τὸ τύμπανον καὶ καταπαύσῃ τὸν θίασον, ἀποκτενοῦντοσ αὐτόν. (Plutarch, Cleomenes, chapter 36 4:1)
  • λέγω δ’ οἱο͂ν, ἐπεὶ τὰ ἐναντία ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ γένει, τὸ φάναι τὸν μὲν πτωχεύοντα εὔχεσθαι τὸν δὲ εὐχόμενον πτωχεύειν, ὅτι ἄμφω αἰτήσεισ, τὸ εἰρημένον ἐστὶ ποιεῖν, ὡσ καὶ Ἰφικράτησ Καλλίαν μητραγύρτην ἀλλ’ οὐ δᾳδοῦχον, ὁ δὲ ἔφη ἀμύητον αὐτὸν εἶναι· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 2 10:1)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἂν μητραγύρτην αὐτὸν καλεῖν, ἀλλὰ δᾳδοῦχον· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 2 10:2)

Synonyms

  1. a begging priest of Cybele

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

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