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πεντηκοντάδραχμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πεντηκοντάδραχμος πεντηκοντάδραχμον

Structure: πεντηκονταδραχμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. worth fifty drachmae

Declension

First/Second 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

  • τοῦτο δ’ ἐστίν, ὥσπερ ἔφη Πρόδικοσ, ὅτε νυστάζοιεν οἱ ἀκροαταί, παρεμβάλλειν <τι> τῆσ πεντηκονταδράχμου αὐτοῖσ. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 14 9:6)
  • εἰ μὲν οὖν ἐγὼ ἤδη ἠκηκόη παρὰ Προδίκου τὴν πεντηκοντάδραχμον ἐπίδειξιν, ἣν ἀκούσαντι ὑπάρχει περὶ τοῦτο πεπαιδεῦσθαι, ὥσ φησιν ἐκεῖνοσ, οὐδὲν ἂν ἐκώλυέν σε αὐτίκα μάλα εἰδέναι τὴν ἀλήθειαν περὶ ὀνομάτων ὀρθότητοσ· (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 6:2)

Synonyms

  1. worth fifty drachmae

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

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