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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

  • οὐδεὶσ γὰρ ἦν, ὃσ προθύμωσ κινδύνῳ τῷ αὐτοῦ ποριστὴσ τῶν ἐκείνου ἀσφαλειῶν καθίστατο. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 17 99:3)
  • μήτε τοῦ πρὸσ Τιβέριον συγγενοῦσ, ἀλλ’ ἐπιστάμενον, ὡσ σύν τε τοῖσ θεοῖσ καὶ μετ’ αὐτοὺσ τοιῶνδέ σοι κατασταίην ἀγαθῶν ποριστήσ, ἀμείβεσθαί μου τὸ ἐπ’ αὐτοῖσ πρόθυμον καὶ ἅμα Τιβερίου φροντίζειν διὰ τὴν συγγένειαν, ἄλλωσ τε γινώσκειν, ὡσ τεῖχόσ σοι καὶ τῆσ ἀρχῆσ ὁμοῦ καὶ τῆσ σωτηρίασ περιὼν γίνοιτο ἂν Τιβέριοσ, φροίμιον δὲ τοῦ δυστυχοῦσ μεθιστάμενοσ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 18 262:1)
  • σὺν γὰρ τοῖσ θεοῖσ εἷσ ἀνὴρ οὗτοσ ποριστὴσ ἡμῖν καὶ γνώμῃ καὶ χερσὶ τῆσ ἐλευθερίασ πέφηνεν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 19 206:2)
  • Γάιοσ μὲν δὴ τέταρτον ἐνιαυτὸν ἡγεμονεύσασ Ῥωμαίων λείποντα τεσσάρων μηνῶν οὕτωσ τελευτᾷ, ἀνὴρ καὶ πρότερον ἢ τῇ ἀρχῇ συνῆλθεν σκαιόσ τε καὶ κακοτροπίασ εἰσ τὸ ἄκρον ἀφιγμένοσ, ἡδονῇ τε ἡσσώμενοσ καὶ φίλοσ διαβολῇ, καὶ τὰ μὲν φοβερὰ καταπεπληγμένοσ καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἐφ’ οἷσ θαρσήσειε φονικώτατοσ, τῆσ τε ἐξουσίασ ἐφ’ ἑνὶ μόνῳ πιμπλάμενοσ τῷ ὑβρίζειν, εἰσ οὓσ ἥκιστα ἐχρῆν ἀλόγῳ μεγαλοψυχίᾳ χρώμενοσ καὶ ποριστὴσ ἐκ τοῦ κτείνειν καὶ παρανομεῖν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 19 228:1)

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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