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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

  • καὶ μὴν θρέψω γ’ αὐτὸν παρέχων ὅσα πρεσβύτῃ ξύμφορα, χόνδρον λείχειν, χλαῖναν μαλακήν, σισύραν, πόρνην, ἥτισ τὸ πέοσ τρίψει καὶ τὴν ὀσφῦν. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Choral, anapests1)
  • σχολὴ μὲν οὖν καὶ ἡσυχία καὶ διατριβὴ περὶ λόγουσ ἡδονήν τινα καὶ θεωρίαν ἔχοντασ εὐπρεπέστατον ἀνδρὶ πρεσβύτῃ καὶ πεπαυμένῳ πολέμων καὶ πολιτείασ παραμύθιον τὸ δ’ ἐφ’ ἡδονὴν, ὡσ τέλοσ, καταστρέψαντα τὰσ καλὰσ πράξεισ ἤδη λοιπὸν Ἀφροδίσια τῶν πολέμων καὶ στρατηγιῶν ἄγοντα παίζειν καὶ τρυφᾶν οὐκ ἄξια τῆσ καλῆσ Ἀκαδημείασ, οὐδέ τὸν Ξενοκράτη ζηλοῦντοσ, ἀλλ’ ἐγκεκλικότοσ πρὸσ τὸν Ἐπίκουρον. (Plutarch, Comparison of Lucullus and Cimon, chapter 1 3:1)
  • ὡρ́α τοίνυν καὶ βασιλεῖ παραινεῖν πρεσβύτῃ γεγενημένῳ τὸ μὲν διάδημα καταθέσθαι καὶ τὴν πορφύραν, ἱμάτιον δ’ ἀναλαβόντα καὶ καμπύλην ἐν ἀγρῷ διατρίβειν, μὴ δοκῇ περίεργα καὶ ἀώρα πράττειν ἐν πολιαῖσ βασιλεύων. (Plutarch, An seni respublica gerenda sit, chapter, section 11 3:2)
  • τοὺσ νέουσ παντὶ πρεσβύτῃ καθάπερ νομοθέτῃ πειθομένουσ διατελεῖν· (Plutarch, An seni respublica gerenda sit, chapter, section 24 4:1)
  • σπουδῇ οὖν βαδίζοντεσ ἐφιστάμεθα πρεσβύτῃ καὶ νεανίσκῳ μάλα προθύμωσ πρασιάν τινα ἐργαζομένοισ καὶ, ὕδωρ ἀπὸ τῆσ πηγῆσ ἐπ’ αὐτὴν διοχετεύουσιν· (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 1 33:1)

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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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