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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

  • "Ἀγαθοκλέα δοῦλον γενόμενον καὶ τῶν ἐκ Θετταλίασ πενεστῶν Φίλιπποσ μέγα παρ’ αὐτῷ δυνάμενον διὰ τὴν κολακείαν καὶ ὅτι ἐν τοῖσ συμποσίοισ συνὼν αὐτῷ ὠρχεῖτο καὶ γέλωτα παρεσκεύαζεν ἀπέστειλε διαφθεροῦντα Περραιβοὺσ καὶ τῶν ἐκεῖ πραγμάτων ἐπιμελησόμενον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 761)
  • "λέγει δὲ καὶ Καλλίστρατοσ ὁ Ἀριστοφάνειοσ ὅτι τοὺσ Μαριανδυνοὺσ ὠνόμαζον μὲν δωροφόρουσ ἀφαιροῦντεσ τὸ πικρὸν τῆσ ἐπί τῶν οἰκετῶν προσηγορίασ, καθάπερ Σπαρτιᾶται μὲν ἐποίησαν ἐπὶ τῶν εἱλώτων, Θετταλοὶ δ’ ἐπὶ τῶν πενεστῶν, Κρῆτεσ δ’ ἐπὶ τῶν κλαρωτῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 81 1:29)

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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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