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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

  • "ὁ μὲν γὰρ ὑδροποτῶν καὶ μεριμνῶν τὰσ νύκτασ, ὥσ φασιν, ὁ δὲ πορνοβοσκῶν καὶ μεθυσκόμενοσ κατὰ τὴν ἡμέραν ἑκάστην προγάστωρ ἡμῖν ἐν ταῖσ ἐκκλησίαισ ἀνακαλεῖ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 22 2:1)
  • τούτουσ δὲ τοὺσ λόγουσ λέγοντοσ τοῦ Ἐπαινέτου καὶ τὴν γραφὴν γεγραμμένου, γνοὺσ Στέφανοσ οὑτοσὶ ὅτι ἐξελεγχθήσεται πορνοβοσκῶν καὶ συκοφαντῶν, δίαιταν ἐπιτρέπει πρὸσ τὸν Ἐπαίνετον αὐτοῖσ τοῖσ ἐγγυηταῖσ, ὥστε τῆσ μὲν ἐγγύησ αὐτοὺσ ἀφεῖσθαι, τὴν δὲ γραφὴν ἀνελέσθαι τὸν Ἐπαίνετον. (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 103:1)

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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