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πρωθήβης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρωθήβης πρωθήβου

Structure: πρωθηβ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: prw=tos

Sense

  1. in the prime of youth

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

  • ὤλεο δὴ πατέρων περὶ ληίδα καὶ σύ, Μαχάτα, δριμὺν ἐπ’ Αἰτωλοῖσ ἀντιφέρων πόλεμον, πρωθήβασ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 4381)
  • ὁ δέ, Ῥωμαίων ἄρτι Καρχηδόνα καὶ τὴν Ἑλλάδα ἑλόντων καὶ τὸν τρίτον ἐν Μακεδονία πόλεμον κατωρθωκοτων, φειδοῖ τῶν ἀνδρῶν τῶν ἐκεῖθεν ἐληλυθότων κατέλεγε πρωθήβασ, οὐ πρὶν πολέμου πεπειραμένουσ, ἐσ δύο τέλη. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 11 5:2)
  • κήρυκεσ δ’ ἀνὰ ἄστυ Διὶ̈ φίλοι ἀγγελλόντων παῖδασ πρωθήβασ πολιοκροτάφουσ τε γέροντασ λέξασθαι περὶ ἄστυ θεοδμήτων ἐπὶ πύργων· (Homer, Iliad, Book 8 52:2)

Synonyms

  1. in the prime of youth

Related

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

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