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παιδοτρίβης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: παιδοτρίβης παιδοτρίβου

Structure: παιδοτριβ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: tri/bw

Sense

  1. one who teaches boys wrestling and other exercises, a gymnastic master, his

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

  • πλὴν ἀλλ̓ ὥσπερ ἐγὼ μαντεύομαι, ὁ δὲ Ἀσκληπιὸσ ἰᾶται, σὺ δὲ παλαίειν διδάσκεισ παιδοτρίβησ ἄριστοσ ὤν, ἡ δὲ Ἄρτεμισ μαιεύεται καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἕκαστοσ ἔχει τινὰ τέχνην ἢ θεοῖσ ἢ ἀνθρώποισ χρησίμην, οὗτοι δὲ τί ποιήσουσιν ἡμῖν; (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 8:5)
  • Ὅτι τὸ φούλλικλον καλούμενον ἦν δὲ ὡσ ἐοίκε σφαιρίσκιόν τί εὑρ͂εν Ἀττικὸσ Νεαπολίτησ παιδοτρίβησ γυμνασίασ ἕνεκα Πομπηίου Μὰγνου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 25 2:3)
  • ἐκαλεῖτο δὲ φαινίνδα ἀπὸ τῆσ ἀφέσεωσ τῶν σφαιριζόντων, ἢ ὅτι εὑρετὴσ αὐτοῦ, ὥσ φησιν Ιὄβασ ὁ Μαυρούσιοσ, Φαινέστιοσ ὁ παιδοτρίβησ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 26 1:2)
  • γυμναζόμενοσ ἀνὴρ καὶ τοῦτο πράττων πότερον παντὸσ ἀνδρὸσ ἐπαίνῳ καὶ ψόγῳ καὶ δόξῃ τὸν νοῦν προσέχει, ἢ ἑνὸσ μόνου ἐκείνου ὃσ ἂν τυγχάνῃ ἰατρὸσ ἢ παιδοτρίβησ ὤν; (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 26:10)
  • εἰ οὖν βουλεύοιντο Ἀθηναῖοι τίσιν χρὴ προσπαλαίειν καὶ τίσιν ἀκροχειρίζεσθαι καὶ τίνα τρόπον, σὺ ἄμεινον ἂν συμβουλεύοισ ἢ ὁ παιδοτρίβησ; (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 27:5)

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

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