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ὀρνιθοθήρης

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀρνιθοθήρης ὀρνιθοθήρου

Structure: ὀρνιθοθηρ (Stem) + ᾱς (Ending)

Etym.: qhra/w

Sense

  1. a bird-catcher, fowler

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

  • οἱ μὲν οὖν αὐλικοὶ κόλακεσ ὥσπερ ὀρνιθοθῆραι μιμούμενοι τῇ φωνῇ καὶ συνεξομοιοῦντεσ ἑαυτοὺσ ὑποδύονται μάλιστα καὶ προσάγουσι δι’ ἀπάτησ τοῖσ βασιλεῦσι τῷ δὲ πολιτικῷ μιμεῖσθαι μὲν οὐ προσήκει τοῦ δήμου τὸν τρόπον, ἐπίστασθαι δὲ καὶ χρῆσθαι πρὸσ ἕκαστον, οἷσ ἁλώσιμόσ ἐστιν· (Plutarch, Praecepta gerendae reipublicae, chapter, section 3 15:2)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἂν παρὰ τοῖσ ὀρνιθοθήραισ ἐτρέφοντο δεδεμέναι καὶ δουλεύουσαι. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 27:1)

Synonyms

  1. a bird-catcher

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

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