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προαγωγεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: προαγωγεία

Structure: προαγωγει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from proagwgeu/w

Sense

  1. the trade of a proagwgo/s, pandering

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

  • τὴν προαγωγείαν, ἔφη. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 4 62:6)
  • "ᾧ καὶ Σωκράτησ ἐχρήσατο, τοῦ Ἀντισθένουσ τὸ φιλοποιὸν καὶ συναγωγὸν ἀνθρώπων εἰσ εὔνοιαν μαστροπείαν καὶ συναγωγίαν καὶ προαγωγείαν ὀνομάσασ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 2, 11:4)

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

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