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πορνοβοσκός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πορνοβοσκός πορνοβοσκοῦ

Structure: πορνοβοσκ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a brothel-keeper

Declension

Second 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

  • τίσ πορνοβοσκὸσ ὕβρισται ; (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 21:8)
  • ἐν δὲ τοῖσ ἐπιγραφομένοισ Συντρέχουσι κνισολοιχίαν εἴρηκεν ἐν τούτοισ ὁ πορνοβοσκὸσ γὰρ μ’ ὑπὸ κνισολοιχίασ χορδὴν τιν’ αἱματῖτιν αὑτῷ σκευάσαι ἐκέλευσε ταυτηνί με. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 99 4:3)
  • ἢ Βάτραχοσ ὁ πορνοβοσκὸσ λέγων ἢ πράττων πεποίηται, διδασκέσθω τὴν μιμουμένην ταῦτα δύναμιν καὶ τέχνην ἐπαινεῖν, ἃσ δὲ 26 φθόροσ Η διαθέσεισ καὶ πράξεισ μιμεῖται καὶ προβάλλεσθαι καὶ κακίζειν. (Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat, chapter, section 3 10:1)
  • ἐὰν δὲ πορνοβοσκὸσ καὶ πόρναι, ἀπὸ τῆσ ἐργασίασ αὐτῆσ ἐκλήθη πορνεῖον. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 1244)
  • δίκην τισ δέδωκε πονηρὸσ καὶ πορνοβοσκόσ, ὥσπερ Κτησιφῶν· (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 2464)

Synonyms

  1. a brothel-keeper

Related

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

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