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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

  • ἔπειθ’ οἱ πωληταὶ ι μέν εἰσι, κληροῦται δ’ εἷσ ἐκ τῆσ φυλῆσ. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 47 2:1)
  • καθιστᾶσι δὲ καὶ τοὺσ ἕνδεκα κλήρῳ, τοὺσ ἐπιμελησομένουσ τῶν ἐν τῷ δεσμωτηρίῳ, καὶ τοὺσ ἀπαγομένουσ κλέπτασ καὶ τοὺσ ἀνδραποδιστὰσ καὶ τοὺσ λωποδύτασ, ἂν μὲν ὁμολογῶσι, θανάτῳ ζημιώσοντασ, ἂν δ’ ἀμφισβητῶσιν, εἰσάξοντασ εἰσ τὸ δικαστήριον, κἂν μὲν ἀποφύγωσιν, ἀφήσοντασ, εἰ δὲ μή, τότε θανατώσοντασ, καὶ τὰ ἀπογραφόμενα χωρία καὶ οἰκίασ εἰσάξοντασ εἰσ τὸ δικαστήριον, καὶ τὰ δόξαντα δημόσια εἶναι παραδώσοντασ τοῖσ πωληταῖσ, καὶ τὰσ ἐνδείξεισ εἰσάξοντασ· (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 52 1:1)
  • Ἀριστοφάνησ δ’ ἐν Δαναΐσιν καὶ πωλητὴν φησιν αὐτῶν εἶναι ἐν τούτοισ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 543)
  • εἰπὼν οὖν, ὅτι παλαιὰν ἐωνημένοσ οἰκίαν βούλεται τὰ ὕποπτα δεῖξαι τοῖσ πωληταῖσ, ἀπῆλθε, καὶ διὰ τῆσ Τιβερίου καλουμένησ οἰκίασ καταβὰσ ἐβάδιζεν εἰσ ἀγοράν, οὗ χρυσοῦσ εἱστήκει κίων, εἰσ ὃν αἱ τετμημέναι τῆσ Ἰταλίασ ὁδοὶ πᾶσαι τελευτῶσιν. (Plutarch, Galba, chapter 24 4:1)
  • "τίσ ὁ παρ’ Ἐπιδαμνίοισ πωλήτησ; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 291)
  • "τίσ ὁ παρ’ Ἐπιδαμνίοισ πωλήτησ; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 291)

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

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