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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

  • λέγεται δὲ ὑπὸ τοῦ Κορινθίων πρεσβευτοῦ πρὸσ Λακεδαιμονίουσ συγκρίνοντοσ τά τε Ἀθηναίων καὶ Λακεδαιμονίων· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 148)
  • "ἐπίστευον γὰρ ἄν, εἲ γε εἶδον αὐτά, νῦν δὲ συγγνώμη, οἶμαι, εἰ μὴ τὰ ὅμοια ὑμῖν ὀξυδορκεῖν ἔχω πλὴν ἀλλ’ οἶδα γὰρ τὴν Χρυσίδα ἣν λέγεισ, ἐραστὴν γυναῖκα καὶ πρόχειρον, οὐχ ὁρῶ δὲ τίνοσ ἕνεκα ἐδεήθητε ἐπ’ αὐτὴν τοῦ πηλίνου πρεσβευτοῦ καὶ μάγου τοῦ ἐξ Ὑπερβορέων καὶ Σελήνησ αὐτῆσ, ἣν εἴκοσι δραχμῶν ἀγαγεῖν εἰσ Ὑπερβορέουσ δυνατὸν ἦν. (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 13:2)
  • οὐδὲ τὴν Εὐφήμου τοῦ πρεσβευτοῦ τῶν Ἀθηναίων τὴν ἐναντίαν ταύτησ, οὐδὲ τὰσ ὁμοίασ ταύταισ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 434)
  • ἀλλὰ "μετὰ ταῦτα, φησίν, Ὀνίασ ἐπὶ τὴν πόλιν ἤγαγε στρατὸν ὀλίγον ὄντοσ ἐκεῖ Θέρμου τοῦ παρὰ Ῥωμαίων πρεσβευτοῦ καὶ παρόντοσ. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 55:2)
  • ὡσ δ’ ἐπικρατήσασ τῇ μάχῃ καὶ καταβαλὼν ἐσκύλευε τὸν ἄνθρωπον, γνωρίσασ ὁ Βρέννοσ αὐτὸν ἐπεμαρτύρατο θεούσ, ὡσ παρὰ τὰ κοινὰ καὶ νενομισμένα πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποισ ὅσια καὶ δίκαια πρεσβευτοῦ μὲν ἥκοντοσ, πολέμια δὲ εἰργασμένου. (Plutarch, Camillus, chapter 17 5:1)

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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