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πρωτοστάτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρωτοστάτης πρωτοστάτου

Structure: πρωτοστατ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: sth=nai

Sense

  1. one who stands first, especially the first man on the right of the line; right-hand man, (in the plural) the front-rank men
  2. the lochagos
  3. man in the uneven rows in a lochos, as opposed to the epistates

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

  • καὶ τούτουσ οἱ μὲν πρωτοστάται ἐσ προβολὴν ἐχόντων, ὡσ εἰ πελάζοιεν αὐτοῖσ οἱ πολέμιοι, κατὰ τὰ στήθη μάλιστα τῶν ἵππων τίθεσθαι τῶν κοντῶν τὸν σίδηρον· (Arrian, Acies Contra Alanos 22:3)
  • αὕτη δέ μοι ἡ τάξισ ἀρέσκει διὰ τάδε, ὅτι πρῶτον μὲν οἱ πρωτοστάται πάντεσ ἄρχοντεσ γίγνονται· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 2 7:2)
  • εἰσὶ μὲν γὰρ ἐν τῇ Λακωνικῇ τάξει οἱ πρωτοστάται ἄρχοντεσ, καὶ ὁ στίχοσ ἕκαστοσ πάντ’ ἔχων ὅσα δεῖ παρέχεσθαι. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 11 6:2)
  • οἱ μὲν γὰρ πρωτοστάται τὸν ὑπὲρ τῶν ἄλλων θάνατον ὑπέμενον εὐψύχωσ, οἱ δ’ ἐπιτεταγμένοι τοὺσ πίπτοντασ ὑπερασπίζοντεσ καὶ τοῖσ δεινοῖσ ἐγκαρτεροῦντεσ τοὺσ ἐσχάτουσ κινδύνουσ ὑπὲρ τῆσ νίκησ ἀνεδέχοντο. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvi, chapter 12 4:3)

Synonyms

  1. one who stands first

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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