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πωλητής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πωλητής πωλητοῦ

Structure: πωλητ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: from pwle/w

Sense

  1. one who sells;, let out (locabant) the taxes and revenues

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 τὰσ μὲν ἄλλασ ἀρχὰσ ἀπένειμεν ἄρχειν ἐκ πεντακοσιομεδίμνων καὶ ἱππέων καὶ ζευγιτῶν, τοὺσ ἐννέα ἄρχοντασ καὶ τοὺσ ταμίασ καὶ τοὺσ πωλητὰσ καὶ τοὺσ ἕνδεκα καὶ τοὺσ κωλακρέτασ, ἑκάστοισ ἀνάλογον τῷ μεγέθει τοῦ τιμήματοσ ἀποδιδοὺσ τὴν ἀρχήν· (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 7 3:2)
  • κάλει δέ μοι πρῶτον πάντων τὸν τῆσ Ζωβίασ προστάτην, τῆσ ὑποδεξαμένησ αὐτόν, καὶ τοὺσ πωλητάσ, πρὸσ οὓσ ἀπήγαγεν αὐτήν. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 68:2)

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

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