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πωλοδάμνης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πωλοδάμνης πωλοδάμνου

Structure: πωλοδαμν (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: dama/w

Sense

  1. a horsebreaker

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

  • οἵ τε γοῦν πῶλοι μανθάνουσιν ὑπακούειν τοῖσ πωλοδάμναισ τῷ ὅταν μὲν πείθωνται τῶν ἡδέων τι αὐτοῖσ γίγνεσθαι, ὅταν δὲ ἀπειθῶσι πράγματα ἔχειν, ἔστ’ ἂν ὑπηρετήσωσι κατὰ γνώμην τῷ πωλοδάμνῃ· (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 13 8:1)

Synonyms

  1. a horsebreaker

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

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