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ὀχλαγωγός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀχλαγωγός ὀχλαγωγοῦ

Structure: ὀχλαγωγ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a mob-leader.

Declension

Second 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

  • τὰ μὲν γάρ ἐστι τῶν ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ γεγραμμένων τοῖσ ὑπ’ ἄλλων εἰρημένοισ ὅμοια, τὰ δὲ λίαν ψυχρῶσ προστέθεικεν, τὰ πλεῖστα δὲ βωμολοχίαν ἔχει καὶ πολλήν, εἰ δεῖ τἀληθὲσ εἰπεῖν, ἀπαιδευσίαν ὡσ ἂν ὑπ’ ἀνθρώπου συγκείμενα καὶ φαύλου τὸν τρόπον καὶ παρὰ πάντα τὸν βίον ὀχλαγωγοῦ γεγονότοσ. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 4:1)
  • τοῖσ μὲν γὰρ ἄλλοισ ἅπασιν ὀχλαγωγὸσ ἐδόκει πονηρὸσ εἶναι καὶ τῷ βίῳ καὶ τῷ λόγῳ διεφθαρμένοσ, ὥστε εἰκότωσ ἐλεήσαι τισ ἂν τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρειαν, εἴπερ ἐπὶ τούτῳ μέγα ἐφρόνει. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 83:2)
  • οὗτοσ ὀχλαγωγῶν καὶ κινήσασ ὃ μηθεὶσ ἕτεροσ ἐθάρρει, ταχέωσ περιεποιήσατο φαντασίαν παρὰ τοῖσ πολλοῖσ. (Polybius, Histories, book 24, chapter 7 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a mob-leader

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

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