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πορφυρεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πορφυρεύς πορφυρέως

Structure: πορφυρευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a fisher for purple fish

Declension

Third 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

  • Ἀντίγονοσ δὲ ὁ Καρύστιοσ ἐν Ἀντιπάτρῳ φησὶν ᾗχι μοι ὡραίων πολὺ φίλτεροσ ἡ δὲ ἀριμήλων πορφυρέων, Ἐφύρῃ τὰ τ’ ἀέξεται ἠνεμοέσσῃ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 22 3:2)
  • Ἢν δὲ πλησίον ἤδη ᾖ τοῦ παροξυσμοῦ, κύκλῳ μαρμαρυγαὶ πρὸ τῆσ ὄψιοσ πορφυρέων ἢ μελάνων, ἢ πάντων ὁμοῦ συμμεμιγμένων, ὡσ δοκέειν τὴν ἐν οὐρανῷ τετανύσθαι ἶριν. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 3)
  • ἡ καὶ ἔτ’ ἐκ βρέφεοσ κοιμωμένη Ἀντιοδημὶσ πορφυρέων, Παφίησ νοσσίσ, ἐπὶ κροκύδων, ἡ τακεραῖσ λεύσσουσα κόραισ μαλακώτερον ὕπνου, Λύσιδοσ ἀλκυονίσ, τερπνὸν ἄθυρμα Μέθησ, ὑδατίνουσ φορέουσα βραχίονασ, ἣ μόνη ὀστοῦν οὐ λάχεν ἡ̓͂ν γὰρ ὅλη τοὐν ταλάροισι γάλἀ, Ἰταλίην ἤμειψεν, ἵνα πτολέμοιο καὶ αἰχμῆσ ἀμπαύσῃ Ῥώμην μαλθακίνῃ χάριτι. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 5671)
  • θάλλοι τετρακόρυμβοσ, Ἀνάκρεον, ἀμφὶ σὲ κισσόσ, ἁβρά τε λειμώνων πορφυρέων πέταλα· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 231)
  • πληρώματα δὲ ἐσ τὰσ ναῦσ καὶ τὰσ ἄλλασ ὑπηρεσίασ πορφυρέων τε πλῆθοσ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ὅσοι ἐργάται τῆσ θαλάσσησ ἀφῖχθαι αὐτῷ ἐκ Φοινίκησ τε καὶ τῆσ ἄλλησ παραλίασ· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 7, chapter 19 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. a fisher for purple fish

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

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