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μισόδημος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μισόδημος μισόδημον

Structure: μισοδημ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. hating the commons

Examples

  • ἀκριβῶσ γὰρ ἴστε, ὦ Ἀθηναῖοι, ἀκριβῶσ, ὅτι ὑμεῖσ μὲν παρὰ πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποισ ἐπαινεῖσθε ταῖσ γεγενημέναισ ζητήσεσιν ὑπὲρ τούτων τῶν χρημάτων, οἱ δ’ ἐξεληλεγμένοι κατὰ τῆσ ἑαυτῶν πατρίδοσ δῶρα εἰληφότεσ πονηροὶ καὶ ἄδικοι καὶ μισόδημοι νομίζονται εἶναι, φιλεῖν ὑμᾶσ φάσκοντεσ καὶ πράττειν ὑπὲρ τῶν τῆσ πόλεωσ ἀγαθῶν, καὶ δι’ ὑμᾶσ ἔνδοξοι γεγενημένοι. (Dinarchus, Speeches, 26:1)

Synonyms

  1. hating the commons

Related

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

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