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ποριστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ποριστής ποριστοῦ

Structure: ποριστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: pori/zw

Sense

  1. one who supplies or provides
  2. to raise extraordinary supplies, Procurators
  3. conveyancers

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

  • ἂν ταῦτ’, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, πορίσητε, τὰ χρήματα πρῶτον ἃ λέγω, εἶτα καὶ τἄλλα παρασκευάσαντεσ, τοὺσ στρατιώτασ, τὰσ τριήρεισ, τοὺσ ἱππέασ, ἐντελῆ πᾶσαν τὴν δύναμιν νόμῳ κατακλείσητ’ ἐπὶ τῷ πολέμῳ μένειν, τῶν μὲν χρημάτων αὐτοὶ ταμίαι καὶ πορισταὶ γιγνόμενοι, τῶν δὲ πράξεων παρὰ τοῦ στρατηγοῦ τὸν λόγον ζητοῦντεσ, παύσεσθ’ ἀεὶ περὶ τῶν αὐτῶν βουλευόμενοι καὶ πλέον οὐδὲν ποιοῦντεσ, καὶ ἔτι πρὸσ τούτῳ πρῶτον μέν, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, τὸν μέγιστον τῶν ἐκείνου πόρων ἀφαιρήσεσθε. (Demosthenes, Speeches, 42:3)
  • οὗτοι μὲν γὰρ πορισταί τε καὶ θηρευταὶ τῶν οὐχ ὑπαρχόντων εἰσίν, ἐκεῖνοι δὲ ἐπίσκοποι καὶ φύλακεσ τῶν παρόντων. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 19, chapter 7 2:5)
  • πάντα τὰ τοιαῦτα πράττοντεσ προθύμωσ καὶ φιλοπόνωσ οὔποτ’ ἂν ἐνδεεῖσ ἔργου καὶ βίου γίγνοιντο,οὐδ’ ἂν ἀληθῆ τὴν ἐπίκλησιν παρέχοιεν τοῖσ πλουσίοισ καλεῖν αὐτούσ, ᾗπερ εἰώθασιν, ἀπόρουσ ὀνομάζοντεσ, τοὐναντίον μᾶλλον ἐκείνων ὄντεσ πορισταὶ καὶ μηδενὸσ ἀποροῦντεσ, ὡσ ἔποσ εἰπεῖν, τῶν ἀναγκαίων καὶ χρησίμων. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 136:1)

Synonyms

  1. to raise extraordinary supplies

Related

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

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