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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

  • τοῦτο δὲ τὸ ὄνομα μνήμησ εὑρίσκω τετυχηκὸσ παρὰ μὲν Εὐβούλῳ ἐν Πορνοβοσκῷ οὕτωσ οὐκ ἂν δυναίμην ἐμφαγεῖν ἄρτον τινά· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 136)
  • Ἀναξίλασ Υἁκίνθῳ πορνοβοσκῷ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 35 2:4)
  • ὁ δὲ κωμῳδιοποιὸσ Ποσείδιπποσ ἐν Πορνοβοσκῷ φησιν ὁ μὴ πεπλευκὼσ οὐδὲν ἑόρακεν κακὸν τῶν μονομαχούντων ἐσμὲν ἀθλιώτεροι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 41 3:3)
  • μέλλοντεσ δὲ γαμεῖν, προαγορεύουσιν αὐτῇ, ὅτι οὐ βούλονται αὐτὴν σφῶν αὐτῶν ἑταίραν γεγενημένην ὁρᾶν ἐν Κορίνθῳ ἐργαζομένην οὐδ’ ὑπὸ πορνοβοσκῷ οὖσαν, ἀλλ’ ἡδέωσ ἂν αὑτοῖσ εἰή ἔλαττόν τε τἀργύριον κομίσασθαι παρ’ αὐτῆσ ἢ κατέθεσαν, καὶ αὐτὴν ταύτην ὁρᾶν τι ἀγαθὸν ἔχουσαν. (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 46:1)
  • Φέρε, πορνοβοσκῷ δὲ οὐ κερδαλεώτερόν τε καὶ ἄμεινον πρὸσ τὴν ἐμπολὴν μόνον ἔχειν τοῦτο τὸ ὄνειδοσ καὶ μόνον αὐτὸν ἀκούειν κακῶσ ἢ σὺν ἑτέροισ, ὁμοίωσ μὲν ἐν πόλει τρέφοντα καὶ ἀσκοῦντα τοιοῦτον θρέμμα, ὁμοίωσ δὲ εἰσ Πυλαίαν καὶ τὰσ ἄλλασ πανηγύρεισ πορευόμενον καὶ περιάγοντα; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, speech 60 9:2)

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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