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ὀαριστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀαριστής ὀαριστοῦ

Structure: ὀαριστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. a familiar friend

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

  • Πυθαγόρην δὲ γόητασ ἀποκλίνοντ’ ἐπὶ δόξασ θήρῃ ἐπ’ ἀνθρώπων, σεμνηγορίησ ὀαριστὴν τῷ δὲ Νομᾷ δρᾶμα θεᾶσ τινοσ ἢ νύμφησ ὀρείασ ἔρωσ ἦν καὶ συνουσία πρὸσ αὐτὸν ἀπόρρητοσ, ὥσπερ εἴρηται, καὶ κοιναὶ μετὰ Μουσῶν διατριβαί. (Plutarch, Numa, chapter 8 5:3)
  • καὶ τοὺσ βασιλεῖσ Ὅμηρόσ φησιν οὐχ ἑλεπόλεισ οὐδὲ ναῦσ χαλκήρεισ, ἀλλὰ θέμιστασ παρὰ τοῦ Διὸσ λαμβάνοντασ ῥύεσθαι καὶ φυλάσσειν, καὶ τοῦ Διὸσ οὐ τὸν πολεμικώτατον οὐδὲ τὸν ἀδικώτατον καὶ φονικώτατον τῶν βασιλέων, ἀλλὰ τὸν δικαιότατον ὀαριστὴν καὶ μαθητὴν προσηγόρευκεν. (Plutarch, Demetrius, chapter 42 5:3)
  • εἰσὶν δὲ οἳ ὑπολαμβάνουσι τὸν ὀαριστὴν συμπότην καὶ συμπαιστὴν εἶναι τοῦ Διόσ, ἀλλὰ τῷδε ἄν τισ τεκμηρίῳ χρῷτο ὅτι οὐδὲν λέγουσιν οἱ οὕτωσ ὑπολαμβάνοντεσ· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 41:2)
  • ἐκεῖ, ἔφη, ὅπου τὸν Μίνω λέγει τοῦ Διὸσ ὀαριστήν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 46:5)
  • Πυθαγόρην τε γόητασ ἀποκλίναντ’ ἐπὶ δόξασ θήρῃ ἐπ’ ἀνθρώπων, σεμνηγορίησ ὀαριστήν. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, h, Kef. a'. PUQAGORAS 36:3)

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

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