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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

  • οὐχ ὕβρισ πίνειν δ’ ὁπόσον κεν ἔχων ἀφίκοιο οἴκαδ’ ἄνευ προπόλου, μὴ πάνυ γηραλέοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 7 3:1)
  • σπείσαντασ δὲ καὶ εὐξαμένουσ τὰ δίκαια δύνασθαι πρήσσειν ‐‐ ταῦτα γὰρ ὦν ἐστὶ προχειρότερον ‐‐ οὐχ ὕβρισ πίνειν ὁπόσον κεν ἔχων ἀφίκοιο οἴκαδ’ ἄνευ προπόλου μὴ πάνυ γηραλέοσ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 10)

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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