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πενέστης

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πενέστης πενέστου

Structure: πενεστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: pe/nomai

Sense

  1. a labourer, workman, serfs, ascripti glebae
  2. any slave or bondsman, a poor man

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

  • ἐκεῖνοι Μένωνι τῷ Φαρσαλίῳ δώδεκα μὲν τάλαντ’ ἀργυρίου δόντι πρὸσ τὸν ἐπ’ Ηιὄνι τῇ πρὸσ Ἀμφιπόλει πόλεμον, διακοσίοισ δ’ ἱππεῦσι πενέσταισ ἰδίοισ βοηθήσαντι, οὐκ ἐψηφίσαντο πολιτείαν, ἀλλ’ ἀτέλειαν ἔδωκαν μόνον. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 28:3)
  • ἐκεῖνοι Μένωνι τῷ Φαρσαλίῳ δώδεκα μὲν τάλαντ’ ἀργυρίου δόντι πρὸσ τὸν ἐπ’ Ηιὄνι τῇ πρὸσ Ἀμφιπόλει πόλεμον, τριακοσίοισ δ’ ἱππεῦσι πενέσταισ ἰδίοισ βοηθήσαντι, οὐκ ἐψηφίσαντο, αὐτὸν ἄν τισ ἀποκτείνῃ, ἀγώγιμον εἶναι, ἀλλὰ πολιτείαν ἔδοσαν καὶ ταύτην ἱκανὴν ὑπελάμβανον εἶναι τὴν τιμήν. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 282:3)

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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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