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πρεσβευτής

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρεσβευτής πρεσβευτοῦ

Structure: πρεσβευτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: presbeu/w

Sense

  1. an ambassador
  2. an agent or commissioner

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

  • ἀλλὰ μὴν τὰ τότε συμβάντα διεξελθών, διεξελθὼν δὲ τοὺσ ῥηθέντασ ὑφ’ ἑαυτοῦ λόγουσ ἐπὶ τῆσ ἐκκλησίασ, καὶ ὡσ πρεσβευτὴσ ὑπ’ Ἀθηναίων εἰσ Θήβασ ἐπέμφθη, ταῦτα κατὰ λέξιν ἐπιτίθησιν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ad Ammaeum, chapter 11 4:3)
  • τοιοῦτοσ οὗτοσ, ἐν μὲν ταῖσ παρατάξεσιν οἰκουρόσ, ἐν δὲ τοῖσ οἴκοι μένουσι πρεσβευτήσ, ἐν δὲ τοῖσ πρεσβευταῖσ δραπέτησ ἐστίν. (Dinarchus, Speeches, 98:2)
  • "ὁ ὄφισ δ’ ὁ πρεσβευτὴσ ὁ νέοσ ἄρα καὶ ἐχειραγώγει τὸν· (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 12:1)
  • οὗτοσ μέντοι πρῶτοσ ἐξουσίᾳ δικτάτοροσ ἐν ὑπατείᾳ χρησάμενοσ καὶ κατακτείνασ ἀκρίτουσ ἐπὶ τρισχιλίοισ πολίταισ Γάιον Γράγχον καὶ Φούλβιον Φλάκκον, ὧν ὁ μὲν ἦν ὑπατικὸσ καὶ θριαμβικόσ, ὁ δὲ τῆσ καθ’ αὑτὸν ἡλικίασ ἀρετῇ καὶ δόξῃ πεπρωτευκώσ, οὐκ ἀπέσχετο κλοπῆσ, ἀλλὰ πεμφθεὶσ ὡσ Ιοὐγούρθαν τὸν Νομάδα πρεσβευτήσ διεφθάρη χρήμασιν ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ· (Plutarch, Caius Gracchus, chapter 18 1:1)
  • ἐν δὲ τῷ ψηφίσματι τοῦ Ἀριστείδου πρεσβευτὴσ οὐκ αὐτόσ, ἀλλὰ Κίμων καὶ Ξάνθιπποσ καὶ Μυρωνίδησ φέρονται. (Plutarch, , chapter 10 8:2)

Synonyms

  1. an ambassador

Related

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

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