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ὀψώνης

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀψώνης ὀψώνου

Structure: ὀψων (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: o)/yon, w)ne/omai

Sense

  1. one who buys fish or victuals, a purveyor

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

  • ὀψώνην δ’ εἴρηκεν Ἀριστοφάνησ ἐν Ταγηνισταῖσ διὰ τούτων ὡσ οὑψώνησ διατρίβειν ἡμῖν τἄριστον ἐοίκε. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 70 2:5)
  • τρέφει με Θετταλόσ τισ ἄνθρωποσ βαρύσ, πλουτῶν, φιλάργυροσ δὲ κἀλιτήριοσ, ὀψοφάγοσ, ὀψωνῶν δὲ μέχρι τριωβόλου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 72 1:4)
  • ’ καὶ ὀψωνῶν δὲ ὑπομιμνῄσκειν τὸν κρεωπώλην, εἴ τι χρήσιμοσ αὐτῷ γέγονε, καὶ ἑστηκὼσ πρὸσ τῷ σταθμῷ μάλιστα μὲν κρέασ, εἰ δὲ μή, ὀστοῦν εἰσ τὸν ζωμὸν ἐμβαλεῖν, καὶ ἐὰν μὲν λάβῃ, εὖ ἔχει, εἰ δὲ μή, ἁρπάσασ ἀπὸ τῆσ τραπέζησ χολίκιον ἅμα γελῶν ἀπαλλάττεσθαι. (Theophrastus, Characters, 4:2)

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

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