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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

  • Δημοχάρησ γοῦν ὁ Δημοσθένουσ τοῦ ῥήτοροσ ἀνεψιὸσ ἐν τῇ εἰκοστῇ τῶν ἱστοριῶν διηγούμενοσ περὶ ἧσ ἐποιοῦντο οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι κολακείασ πρὸσ τὸν Πολιορκητὴν Δημήτριον καὶ ὅτι τοῦτ’ οὐκ ἦν ἐκείνῳ βουλομένῳ, γράφει οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 622)
  • "ἐπὶ ταύτησ Πτολεμαῖοσ ὁ Λάγου ἐνίκα κατὰ Γάζαν μάχῃ Δημήτριον τὸν Ἀντιγόνου τὸν ἐπικληθέντα Πολιορκητήν. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 207:2)
  • Λυγκεὺσ δὲ διαγράφων τὸ Λαμίασ τῆσ αὐλητρίδοσ δεῖπνον, ὅτε ὑπεδέχετο Δημήτριον τὸν Πολιορκητήν, εὐθέωσ τοὺσ εἰσελθόντασ ἐπὶ τὸ δεῖπνον ἐσθίοντασ ποιεῖ ἰχθῦσ παντοίουσ καὶ κρέα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 59 3:1)

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

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