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πολυπότης

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυπότης

Structure: πολυποτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. a hard drinker

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

  • Ξάνθοσ δ’ ἐν τοῖσ Λυδιακοῖσ Κάμβλητά φησι τὸν βασιλεύσαντα Λυδῶν πολυφάγον γενέσθαι καὶ πολυπότην, ἔτι δὲ γαστρίμαργον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 8 1:5)
  • φανερῶσ γὰρ αὐτὸσ προσέκειτο τῶν ἄλλων μᾶλλον τῷ οἴνῳ καὶ τοῦ Ἀγαμέμνονοσ αὐτοῦ, ὃν ὡσ πολυπότην ἐπιπλήσσει ὁ Ἀχιλλεύσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 422)
  • ἐν δὲ τῇ δευτέρᾳ ὁ αὐτὸσ Πολύβιοσ ἱστορεῖ Ἄγρωνα τὸν Ἰλλυριῶν βασιλέα ἡσθέντα ἐπὶ τῷ νενικηκέναι τοὺσ μέγα φρονοῦντασ Αἰτωλοὺσ πολυπότην ὄντα καὶ εἰσ μέθασ καὶ εὐωχίασ τραπέντα πλευρίτιδι ληφθέντα ἀποθανεῖν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 54 1:5)
  • καὶ Δημήτριον δέ φησι, τὸν ἐκ τῆσ Ῥώμησ τὴν ὁμηρείαν διαφυγόντα, ἐν τῇ τρίτῃ καὶ τριακοστῇ βασιλεύσαντα Σύρων πολυπότην ὄντα τὸ πλεῖστον τῆσ ἡμέρασ μεθύσκεσθαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 54 3:1)
  • Καὶ Δημήτριον δέ φησι, τὸν ἐκ τῆσ Ῥώμη ὁμηρείαν διαφυγόντα, ἐν τῇ τρίτῃ καὶ τριακοστῇ βασιλεύσαντα Σύρων πολυπότην ὄντα τὸ πλεῖστον τῆσ ἡμέρασ μεθύσκεσθαι. (Polybius, Histories, book 33, ii. res syriae 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. a hard drinker

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

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