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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

  • μῆτίν τε γαρύων παλαιγόνων πόλεμόν τ’ ἐν ἡρωί̈αισ ἀρεταῖσιν οὐ ψεύσομ’ ἀμφὶ Κορίνθῳ, Σίσυφον μὲν πυκνότατον παλάμαισ ὡσ θεόν, καὶ τὰν πατρὸσ ἀντία Μήδειαν θεμέναν γάμον αὐτᾷ, ναὶ̈ σώτειραν Ἀργοῖ καὶ προπόλοισ. (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 13 14:1)

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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