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μισέλλην

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μισέλλην μισέλληνος

Structure: μισελλην (Stem)

Sense

  1. a hater of the Greeks

Declension

Third 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

  • τἆλλ’ οὖν ὢν καὶ μισέλλην ἐν τοῖσ μάλιστα Περσῶν ὁ Τισαφέρνησ, οὕτωσ ἐνεδίδου τῷ Ἀλκιβιάδῃ κολακευόμενοσ ὥσθ’ ὑπερβάλλειν αὐτὸν ἀντικολακεύων ἐκεῖνοσ. (Plutarch, , chapter 24 5:1)
  • εἰσ τὸν αὐτὸν Τίμωνα μισέλληνα ὀξεῖαι πάντῃ περὶ τὸν τάφον εἰσὶν ἄκανθαι καὶ σκόλοπεσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 3201)
  • ἐνταῦθα δὴ Ἀγησίλαοσ γνοὺσ ὅτι, εἰ μὲν μηδετέρῳ συλλήψοιτο, μισθὸν οὐδέτεροσ λύσει τοῖσ Ἕλλησιν, ἀγορὰν δὲ οὐδέτεροσ παρέξει, ὁπότερόσ τ’ ἂν κρατήσῃ, οὗτοσ ἐχθρὸσ ἔσται, εἰ δὲ τῷ ἑτέρῳ συλλήψοιτο, οὗτόσ γε εὖ παθὼν ὡσ τὸ εἰκὸσ φίλοσ ἔσοιτο, οὕτω δὴ κρίνασ ὁπότεροσ φιλέλλην μᾶλλον ἐδόκει εἶναι, στρατευσάμενοσ μετὰ τούτου τὸν μὲν μισέλληνα μάχῃ νικήσασ χειροῦται, τὸν δ’ ἕτερον συγκαθίστησι· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 2 33:1)
  • ὁ δ’ οὖν Ἀννίβασ, ὢν μὲν καὶ φύσει μισέλλην, ὁμοῦ δὲ τὰσ τῶν προγόνων ἀτιμίασ διορθώσασθαι βουλόμενοσ, ἔσπευδε δι’ ἑαυτοῦ τι κατασκευάσαι χρήσιμον τῇ πατρίδι. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiii, chapter 42 16:1)

Synonyms

  1. a hater of the Greeks

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

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