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μικρολόγος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μικρολόγος

Structure: μικρολογ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. reckoning trifles;
  2. caring about petty expenses, penurious
  3. cavilling about trifles, captious

Examples

  • οὔτε γὰρ τρίγλαν ἔστι δήπου ληιβότειραν οὔτε σκάρον τρυγηφάγον οὔτε κεστρεῖσ τινασ ἢ λάβρακασ σπερμολόγουσ προσειπεῖν, ὡσ τὰ χερσαῖα κατηγοροῦντεσ ὀνομάζομεν ἀλλ’ οὐδ’ ὅσα γαλῇ καὶ μυίᾳ κατοικιδίῳ μικρολόγωσ ἐγκαλοῦμεν ἔχοι τισ ἂν αἰτιάσασθαι τὸν μέγιστον ἰχθῦν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 8, 18:13)

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

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