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ὀρτυγοθήρης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀρτυγοθήρης ὀρτυγοθήρου

Structure: ὀρτυγοθηρ (Stem) + ᾱς (Ending)

Etym.: qhra/w

Sense

  1. a quail-catcher

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

  • ἐπειδὰν ἢ πόλιν τινὰ θηρεύσωνται ἢ στρατόπεδον, παραδιδόασι τοῖσ πολιτικοῖσ ἀνδράσιν ‐ αὐτοὶ γὰρ οὐκ ἐπίστανται χρῆσθαι τούτοισ ἃ ἐθήρευσαν ‐ ὥσπερ οἶμαι οἱ ὀρτυγοθῆραι τοῖσ ὀρτυγοτρόφοισ παραδιδόασιν. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 225:1)

Synonyms

  1. a quail-catcher

Similar forms

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

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