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πρόπολος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρόπολος πρόπολον

Structure: προπολ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pole/w

Sense

  1. employing oneself before
  2. a servant that goes before, an attendant, minister, a rower
  3. one who serves a god, a minister, a temple-servant, bedel
  4. ministering to, devoted to

Examples

  • καὶ Σιμμίασ δ’ ἐν τῇ Γοργοῖ φησιν αἰθέροσ ὠκεῖαι πρόπολοι πίλναντο Πέλειαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 80 4:1)
  • καὶ τὰ μὲν ἀθρόα πάντα δόμων ἐκ λύματ’ ἔνεικαν νηιάδεσ πρόπολοι, ταί οἱ πόρσυνον ἕκαστα. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 12:13)
  • πρόπολοι δὲ τῶν Μουσῶν οἱ πεπαιδευμένοι πάντεσ, καὶ ἰδίωσ οἱ μουσικοί, τοῦ δ’ Ἀπόλλωνοσ οὗτοί τε καὶ οἱ περὶ μαντικήν, Δήμητροσ δὲ οἵ τε μύσται καὶ δᾳδοῦχοι καὶ ἱεροφάνται, Διονύσου δὲ Σειληνοί τε καὶ Σάτυροι καὶ Τίτυροι καὶ Βάκχαι, Λῆναί τε καὶ Θυῖαι καὶ Μιμαλλόνεσ καὶ Ναί̈δεσ καὶ Νύμφαι προσαγορευόμεναι. (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 3 18:7)
  • ἔτι δ’ ἄν τισ καὶ ταῦτα εὑρ́οι περὶ τῶν δαιμόνων τούτων καὶ τῆσ τῶν ὀνομάτων ποικιλίασ, καὶ ὅτι οὐ πρόπολοι θεῶν μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτοὶ θεοὶ προσηγορεύθησαν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 3 30:1)

Synonyms

  1. ministering to

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

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