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πευθήν

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πευθήν πευθῆνος

Structure: πευθην (Stem)

Etym.: from peu/qomai

Sense

  1. an inquirer, spy

Declension

Third 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

  • λαμβάνων δὲ οὐκ αὐτὸσ ἐχρῆτο μόνοσ οὐδ’ εἰσ πλοῦτον ἀπεθησαύριζεν, ἀλλὰ πολλοὺσ ἤδη περὶ αὑτὸν ἔχων συνεργοὺσ καὶ ὑπηρέτασ καὶ πευθῆνασ καὶ χρησμοποιοὺσ καὶ χρησμοφύλακασ καὶ ὑπογραφέασ καὶ ἐπισφραγιστὰσ καὶ ἐξηγητάσ, ἅπασιν ἔνεμεν ἑκάστῳ τὸ κατ’ ἀξίαν. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 23:3)
  • Πευθῆνασ μέντοι ἐν αὐτῇ Ῥώμῃ κατεστήσατο πάνυ πολλοὺσ τῶν συνωμοτῶν, οἳ τὰσ ἑκάστου γνώμασ διήγγελλον αὐτῷ καὶ τὰσ ἐρωτήσεισ προεμήνυον καὶ ὧν μάλιστα ἐφίενται, ὡσ ἕτοιμον αὐτὸν πρὸσ τὰσ ἀποκρίσεισ καὶ πρὶν ἥκειν τοὺσ πεμπομένουσ καταλαμβάνεσθαι. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 37:1)
  • ὅταν δὲ βουληθῆτε τοὐμὸν εἰδέναι, τοὺσ εἰσφοιτῶντασ εἰσ Ἀκράγαντα ξένουσ ἐρωτήσατε ὁποῖοσ ἐγὼ περὶ αὐτούσ εἰμι καὶ εἰ φιλανθρώπωσ προσφέρομαι τοῖσ καταίρουσιν, ὅσ γε καὶ σκοποὺσ ἐπὶ τῶν λιμένων ἔχω καὶ πευθῆνασ, τίνεσ ὅθεν καταπεπλεύκασιν, ὡσ κατ’ ἀξίαν τιμῶν ἀποπέμποιμι αὐτούσ. (Lucian, Phalaris, book 1 10:1)
  • τίσ, καθ’ ἣν περίεργοι καὶ πευθῆνεσ ἢ πάλιν ἀκίνητοι ὑπὸ λόγου; (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 10:1)

Synonyms

  1. an inquirer

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

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