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μισθοδότης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μισθοδότης μισθοδότου

Structure: μισθοδοτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. one who pays wages, a paymaster

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

  • τοὺσ μέντοι τοῦ ἄλλου πλήθουσ, οἱο͂ν γυμναστάσ τινασ ἢ κόλακασ, ἰδιώτασ καὶ μικροὺσ τὰσ γνώμασ καὶ ταπεινοὺσ αὐτόθεν ἀνθρώπουσ, οὔτε ἀποτρέπειν ἄξιον τῶν τοιούτων συνουσιῶν, οὐδὲ γὰρ ἂν πεισθεῖεν, οὔτε μὴν αἰτιᾶσθαι καλῶσ ἔχει μὴ ἀπολειπομένουσ τῶν μισθοδοτῶν εἰ καὶ πάνυ πολλὰ ὑβρίζοιντο ὑπ’ αὐτῶν, ἐπιτήδειοι γὰρ καὶ οὐκ ἀνάξιοι τῆσ τοιαύτησ διατριβῆσ· (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 4:4)
  • καὶ στρατιώτῃ μὲν ἀγαθῷ οὐ λείπει ὁ μισθοδοτῶν οὐδ’ ἐργάτῃ οὐδὲ σκυτεῖ· (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 27:3)
  • τοῖσ μὲν γὰρ μισθοῦ παρά τισι στρατευομένοισ ἔστιν ὅτε συγγνώμην δοτέον ἀφισταμένοισ τῶν μισθοδοτῶν, τοῖσ δ’ ὑπὲρ ἑαυτῶν πολεμοῦσι καὶ γυναικῶν ἰδίων καὶ τέκνων οὐδαμῶσ συγχωρητέον· (Polybius, Histories, book 11, chapter 28 7:2)

Synonyms

  1. one who pays wages

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

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