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πολιορκητής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολιορκητής πολιορκητοῦ

Structure: πολιορκητ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. taker of cities

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

  • ὃ τῶν βασιλέων καὶ τυράννων οὐδεὶσ ἐζήλωσεν, ἀλλὰ Πολιορκηταὶ καὶ Κεραυνοὶ καὶ Νικάτορεσ, ἔνιοι δ’ Αἐτοὶ καὶ Ιἕρακεσ ἔχαιρον προσαγορευόμενοι, τὴν ἀπὸ τῆσ βίασ καὶ τῆσ δυνάμεωσ, ὡσ ἐοίκε, μᾶλλον ἢ τὴν ἀπὸ τῆσ ἀρετῆσ δόξαν ἀγαπῶντεσ. (Plutarch, , chapter 6 2:1)
  • βούλει οὖν, ἦν δ’ ἐγώ, ἡμεῖσ πρὸσ ἡμᾶσ αὐτοὺσ ὑπὲρ τῶν ἄλλων ἀμφισβητήσωμεν, ἵνα μὴ ἔρημα τὰ τοῦ ἑτέρου λόγου πολιορκῆται; (Plato, Republic, book 5 77:1)

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

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