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ὀπισθόδομος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀπισθόδομος

Sense

  1. the back chamber or inner cell

Examples

  • ἐπεὶ δὲ ἐσ τὴν Ὀλυμπίαν ἀφικόμεθα, μεστὸσ ἦν ὁ ὀπισθόδομοσ τῶν κατηγορούντων Πρωτέωσ ἢ ἐπαινούντων τὴν προαίρεσιν αὐτοῦ, ὥστε καὶ εἰσ χεῖρασ αὐτῶν ἦλθον οἱ πολλοί, ἄχρι δὴ παρελθὼν αὐτὸσ ὁ Πρωτεὺσ μυρίῳ τῷ πλήθει παραπεμπόμενοσ κατόπιν τοῦ τῶν κηρύκων ἀγῶνοσ λόγουσ τινὰσ διεξῆλθεν περὶ ἑαυτοῦ, τὸν βίον τε ὡσ ἐβίω καὶ τοὺσ κινδύνουσ οὓσ ἐκινδύνευσεν διηγούμενοσ καὶ ὅσα πράγματα φιλοσοφίασ ἕνεκα ὑπέμεινεν. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 12:2)
  • καὶ οἱ ταμίαι ἐφ’ ὧν ὁ Ὀπισθόδομοσ ἐνεπρήσθη, καὶ οἱ τῶν τῆσ θεοῦ καὶ οἱ τῶν ἄλλων θεῶν, ἐν τῷ οἰκήματι τούτῳ ἦσαν, ἑώσ ἡ κρίσισ αὐτοῖσ ἐγένετο. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 197:2)

Synonyms

  1. the back chamber or inner cell

Related

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

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