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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

  • χειροτονεῖ δὲ καὶ παιδοτρίβασ αὐτοῖσ δύο καὶ διδασκάλουσ, οἵτινεσ ὁπλομαχεῖν καὶ τοξεύειν καὶ ἀκοντίζειν καὶ καταπάλτην ἀφιέναι διδάσκουσιν. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 42 2:4)
  • τοῖσ παλαίουσι παιδοτρίβασ οὐκ ἐφίστανον, ἵνα μὴ τέχνησ ἀλλ’ ἀρετῆσ ἡ φιλοτιμία γένηται. (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 271)
  • τοῖσ παλαίουσι παιδοτρίβασ οὐκ ἐφίστανον, ἵνα μὴ τέχνησ ἀλλ’ ἀρετῆσ ἡ φιλοτιμία γένηται. (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 271)
  • ἀλλὰ μὴν εἰσάγονταί γ’ ἐφ’ ἑαυτοὺσ οἱ ἰατροὶ κάμνοντεσ ἄλλουσ ἰατροὺσ καὶ οἱ παιδοτρίβαι γυμναζόμενοι παιδοτρίβασ, ὡσ οὐ δυνάμενοι κρίνειν τὸ ἀληθὲσ διὰ τὸ κρίνειν περί τε οἰκείων καὶ ἐν πάθει ὄντεσ. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 3 290:1)
  • καὶ τοὺσ διδασκάλουσ τὰ διδασκαλεῖα καὶ τοὺσ παιδοτρίβασ τὰσ παλαίστρασ ἀνοίγειν μὲν ἀπαγορεύει μὴ πρότερον πρὶν ἂν ἥλιοσ ἀνίσχῃ, κλῄειν δὲ προστάττει πρὸ ἡλίου δεδυκότοσ, τὰσ ἐρημίασ καὶ τὸ σκότοσ ἐν πλείστῃ ὑποψίᾳ ποιούμενοσ· (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 101)

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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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