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πρεσβύτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρεσβύτης πρεσβύτου

Structure: πρεσβυτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: = pre/sbus I, Aesch., etc.

Sense

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

  • οὕτωσ, ἐπεὶ τὸ πράττειν καὶ λέγειν μᾶλλον ἀνθρώποισ ἢ κύκνοισ τὸ ᾄδειν ἄχρι τελευτῆσ κατὰ φύσιν ἔστιν, οὐκ ἀφετέον τὴν πρᾶξιν ὥσπερ τινὰ λύραν σύντονον ἀλλ’ ἀνετέον ἐπὶ τὰ κοῦφα καὶ μέτρια καὶ προσῳδὰ πρεσβύταισ πολιτεύματα μεθαρμοττομένουσ. (Plutarch, An seni respublica gerenda sit, chapter, section 18 3:1)
  • ἁπλῆν οὖν ἀποδέδωκε τὴν δίαιταν πᾶσι καὶ τὴν αὐτὴν ὁμοίωσ βασιλεῦσιν ἰδιώταισ, νέοισ πρεσβύταισ, λέγων· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 152)
  • μάλιστα δ’ ἐν τοῖσ πρεσβύταισ ἡ τοιαύτη δοκεῖ φιλία γίνεσθαι οὐ γὰρ τὸ ἡδὺ οἱ τηλικοῦτοι διώκουσιν ἀλλὰ τὸ ὠφέλιμον, καὶ τῶν ἐν ἀκμῇ καὶ νέων ὅσοι τὸ συμφέρον διώκουσιν. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 8 24:4)
  • "τοῖσ δὲ πρεσβύταισ, κἂν μηδὲν ἡ διήγησισ ᾖ προσήκουσα, πάντωσ οἱ ἐρωτῶντεσ χαρίζονται καὶ κινοῦσι βουλομένουσ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 2, 7:11)
  • ὡσ γὰρ ἐοίκε, μάλιστα, ὡσ εἰρήκαμεν, ἐοίκασι τοῖσ πρεσβύταισ οἱ μεθύοντεσ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 3, 13:2)

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

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