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μισέλλην?

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: misellēn

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

Similar forms

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

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