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πρέσβος?

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration: presbos

Principal Part: πρέσβος πρέσβεος

Structure: πρεσβο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. an object of reverence, august assembly of

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

  • βασίλεια γύναι, πρέσβος Πέρσαις, σύ τε πέμπε χοὰς θαλάμους ὑπὸ γῆς, ἡμεῖς θ ὕμνοις αἰτησόμεθα φθιμένων πομποὺς εὔφρονας εἶναι κατὰ γαίας. (Aeschylus, Persians, episode, anapests1)
  • ἴσως γὰρ ἂν κῆρυξ τις ἢ πρέσβη μόλοι, ἄγειν θέλοντες ῥυσίων ἐφάπτορες. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, episode10)
  • ἄνδρες πολῖται, πρέσβος Ἀργείων τόδε, οὐκ αἰσχυνοῦμαι τοὺς φιλάνορας τρόπους λέξαι πρὸς ὑμᾶς: (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode, anapests 5:1)
  • ὡς ὧδ ἐχόντων, πρέσβος Ἀργείων τόδε, χαίροιτ ἄν, εἰ χαίροιτ, ἐγὼ δ ἐπεύχομαι. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode, anapests 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. an object of reverence

Similar forms

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

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