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μισθάρνης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μισθάρνης μισθάρνου

Structure: μισθαρν (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: a)/rnumai

Sense

  1. a hired workman

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

  • τὸν δὲ κατάπτυστον τοῦτον καὶ Σκύθην ‐ ἐξάγομαι γάρ ‐ , ὃν οὐχ εἷσ ἀνὴρ ἀλλὰ πᾶσ’ ἡ ἐξ Ἀρείου πάγου βουλὴ ζητήσασ’ ἀποπέφαγκε χρήματ’ ἔχειν καθ’ ὑμῶν, καὶ ὃσ ἀποπέφανται μισθαρνῶν καὶ δωροδοκῶν κατὰ τῆσ πόλεωσ καὶ ταῦτ’ ἐξελήλεγκται, τοῦτον οὐ τιμωρησάμενοι παράδειγμα ποιήσετε τοῖσ ἄλλοισ; (Dinarchus, Speeches, 18:1)
  • ἐπὶ τούτῳ χαλεπῶσ μὲν ἔσχον οἱ μετιόντεσ ἀρχάσ, ἔτι δὲ χαλεπώτερον ὁ μισθαρνῶν ὄχλοσ, ἑώθεν οὖν ἐπὶ τὸ βῆμα τοῦ Κάτωνοσ προελθόντοσ ἀθρόοι προσπεσόντεσ ἐβόων, ἐβλασφήμουν, ἔβαλλον, ὥστε φεύγειν ἀπὸ τοῦ βήματοσ ἅπαντασ, αὐτὸν δὲ ἐκεῖνον ἐξωσθέντα τῷ πλήθει καὶ παραφερόμενον μόλισ ἐπιλαβέσθαι τῶν ἐμβόλων, ἐντεῦθεν ἀναστὰσ τῷ μὲν ἰταμῷ καὶ θαρροῦντι τῆσ ὄψεωσ εὐθὺσ ἐκράτησε τοῦ θορύβου καὶ τὴν κραυγὴν ἔπαυσεν, εἰπὼν δὲ τὰ πρέποντα καὶ μεθ’ ἡσυχίασ ἀκουσθείσ παντάπασι διέλυσε τὴν ταραχήν. (Plutarch, Cato the Younger, chapter 44 3:1)
  • ὧν δ’ ἐν ταῖσ οἰκίαισ γέγονε καταισχύνων τὸ σῶμα τὸ ἑαυτοῦ καὶ τὴν πόλιν, μισθαρνῶν ἐπ’ αὐτῷ τούτῳ ὃ ἀπαγορεύει ὁ νόμοσ μὴ πράττειν ἢ μηδὲ δημηγορεῖν, περὶ τούτων ποιήσομαι τοὺσ λόγουσ. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 403)
  • οὐδέ γ’, οἶμαι, τὴν μισθωτικήν, ἐὰν ὑγιαίνῃ τισ μισθαρνῶν. (Plato, Republic, book 1 407:1)

Synonyms

  1. a hired workman

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

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