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πρώταρχος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρώταρχος

Sense

  1. first-beginning, primal

Examples

  • Πρώταρχοσ καλόσ ἐστι, καὶ οὐ θέλει· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 291)
  • οὗτοι δ’ ἤδη μεθύοντεσ ἐκπηδῶσιν ἐφ’ ἡμᾶσ καὶ οἱ μέν τινεσ αὐτῷ τῶν παραγενομένων οὐκ ἠθέλησαν συνεξαμαρτεῖν, Σίμων δὲ οὑτοσὶ καὶ Θεόφιλοσ καὶ Πρώταρχοσ καὶ Αὐτοκλῆσ εἷλκον τὸ μειράκιον. (Lysias, Speeches, 14:2)
  • ἐκ δὲ τῶν Βαργυλίων ἀνὴρ ἐλλόγιμοσ ἦν ὁ Ἐπικούρειοσ Πρώταρχοσ, ὁ Δημητρίου καθηγησάμενοσ τοῦ Λάκωνοσ προσαγορευθέντοσ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 2 39:7)

Synonyms

  1. first-beginning

Related

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

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