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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

  • Θετταλῶν δὲ λεγόντων πενέστασ τοὺσ μὴ γόνῳ δούλουσ, διὰ πολέμου, δ’ ἡλωκότασ, Θεόπομποσ ὁ κωμικὸσ ἀποχρησάμενοσ τῇ φωνῇ φησι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 81 1:33)
  • "Φιλοκράτησ δ’ ἐν β’ Θετταλικῶν εἰ γνήσια τὰ συγγράμματα καλεῖσθαί φησι τοὺσ πενέστασ καὶ Θετταλοικέτασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 81 1:35)
  • , Λακεδαιμόνιοι μὲν γὰρ καὶ Θετταλοὶ φανήσονται κατασκευασάμενοι τὴν δουλείαν ἐκ τῶν Ἑλλήνων τῶν οἰκούντων πρότερον τὴν χώραν ἣν ἐκεῖνοι νῦν ἔχουσιν, οἱ μὲν Ἀχαιῶν, Θετταλοὶ δὲ Περραιβῶν καὶ Μαγνήτων, καὶ προσηγόρευσαν τοὺσ καταδουλωθέντασ οἱ μὲν εἵλωτασ, οἱ δὲ πενέστασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 81 1:56)
  • Φίλιπποσ ὁ Θεαγγελεὺσ ἐν τῷ περὶ Καρῶν καὶ Λελέγων συγγράμματι καταλέξασ τοὺσ Λακεδαιμονίων εἵλωτασ καὶ τοὺσ Θετταλικοὺσ πενέστασ καὶ Κᾶράσ φησι τοῖσ Λέλεξιν ὡσ οἰκέταισ χρήσασθαι πάλαι τε καὶ νῦν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 101 1:3)
  • Θετταλοὶ δὲ πενέστασ ὀνειδίζοντεσ αὐτοῖσ εὐθὺσ ἐν τῇ κλήσει τὴν τύχην. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 9 5:1)

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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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