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

  • ὡρ́α σοι ἄλλον περιβλέπειν τῶν πλουσίων τούτων καὶ πολυχρημάτων· (Lucian, Vitarum auctio, (no name) 12:18)
  • Οὐαλέριοσ μὲν δὴ Ποπλικόλασ οὐθὲν ἔξω τῆσ εἰσ τἀναγκαῖα δαπάνησ κτήσασθαι προελόμενοσ, ὡσ τῶν πολυχρημάτων τισ βασιλέων λαμπραῖσ ὑπὸ τῆσ πόλεωσ ἐκοσμήθη ταφαῖσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 5, chapter 48 7:1)

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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