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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

  • τὸ ἰσχῦον, ἀλλὰ πολλάκισ ἀναγκαζόμενον τὸ Αἰσχύλειον ἀναφωνεῖν, ᾧ πρὸσ τὴν τύχην ἐχρῆτο Δημήτριοσ ὁ πολιορκητὴσ ἀποβαλὼν τὴν ἡγεμονίαν σὺ τοί με φυσᾷσ σύ με καταίθειν μοι δοκεῖσ. (Plutarch, De unius in republica dominatione, chapter, section 4 7:1)
  • φιλόγελωσ δὲ ἦν καὶ Δημήτριοσ ὁ Πολιορκητήσ, ὥσ φησι Φύλαρχοσ ἐν τῇ σ’ τῶν Ἱστοριῶν, ὅσ γε καὶ τὴν Λυσιμάχου αὐλὴν κωμικῆσ σκηνῆσ οὐδὲν διαφέρειν ἔλεγεν ἐξιέναι γὰρ ἀπ’ αὐτῆσ πάντασ δισυλλάβουσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 3 2:3)
  • Δημήτριοσ δ’ ὁ Πολιορκητὴσ οὐ δαιμονίωσ ἤρα Λαμίασ τῆσ αὐλητρίδοσ, ἐξ ἧσ ἔσχε καὶ θυγατέρα Φίλαν; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 38 2:1)
  • ὁ μὲν γὰρ Πολιεὺσ καὶ Πολιοῦχοσ, ὁ δὲ Πολιορκητὴσ ἐπίκλησιν ἔσχεν. (Plutarch, Demetrius, chapter 42 6:2)
  • ὁ δὲ πολιορκητὴσ Δημήτριοσ αἰχμάλωτοσ γενόμενοσ ἐξ οἴνου καὶ μέθησ ἀτίμωσ ἀπέθανεν, ὑπὸ τῆσ τύχησ πολιορκούμενοσ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 40:4)

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

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