Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

πολυχρήματος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυχρήματος πολυχρήματον

Structure: πολυχρηματ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: xrh=ma

Sense

  1. very wealthy.

Examples

  • οἱ δὲ τῶν ἐξελαθέντων στασιῶται, ὅσοι τῶν πλουσίων, καὶ γύναια πολλὰ πολυχρήματα, τοῦ δέουσ τῶν ὅπλων ἀναπνεύσαντεσ ἠρεθίζοντο ὑπὲρ καθόδου τῶνδε τῶν ἀνδρῶν καὶ οὐδὲν σπουδῆσ ἢ δαπάνησ ἐσ τοῦτο ἀπέλειπον, ἐπιβουλεύοντεσ καὶ τοῖσ τῶν ὑπάτων σώμασιν ὡσ οὐκ ἐνὸν τῶνδε περιόντων ἐκείνοισ κατελθεῖν. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 1, chapter 7 9:2)

Synonyms

  1. very wealthy

Related

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

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