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πράκτωρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πράκτωρ πράκτορος

Structure: πρακτορος (Stem)

Etym.: = prakth/r

Sense

  1. one who does or executes, an accomplisher
  2. one who exacts payment, a tax-gatherer
  3. one who exacts punishment, a punisher, avenger, avenging

Declension

Third 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

  • τοῦ λόγου δ’ οὐ χρὴ φθόνον, γύναι, προσεῖναι, Ζεὺσ ὅτου πράκτωρ φανῇ. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, choral 2:2)
  • ἁ δ’ ἀμφίπολοσ Κύπρισ ἄναυδοσ φανερὰ τῶνδ’ ἐφάνη πράκτωρ. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, choral, antistrophe 24)
  • ὡσ γὰρ ὑπάγεισ μετὰ τοῦ ἀντιδίκου σου ἐπ’ ἄρχοντα, ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ δὸσ ἐργασίαν ἀπηλλάχθαι [ἀπ’] αὐτοῦ, μή ποτε κατασύρῃ σε πρὸσ τὸν κριτήν, καὶ ὁ κριτήσ σε παραδώσει τῷ πράκτορι, καὶ ὁ πράκτωρ σε βαλεῖ εἰσ φυλακήν. (, chapter 3 623:1)

Synonyms

  1. one who exacts payment

  2. one who exacts punishment

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

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