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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πωλοδάμνης πωλοδάμνᾱ πωλοδάμναι
Genitive πωλοδάμνου πωλοδάμναιν πωλοδαμνῶν
Dative πωλοδάμνῃ πωλοδάμναιν πωλοδάμναις
Accusative πωλοδάμνην πωλοδάμνᾱ πωλοδάμνᾱς
Vocative πωλοδάμνα πωλοδάμνᾱ πωλοδάμναι

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)
  • ταῦτα γὰρ ὑπομνήματα ἔσται τῷ πωλοδάμνῃ ὧν δεῖ ἐπιμεληθῆναι, εἰ μέλλει τὸν μισθὸν ἀπολήψεσθαι. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 2 3:3)
  • ὅπωσ μέντοι πρᾷόσ τε καὶ χειροήθησ καὶ φιλάνθρωποσ ὁ πῶλοσ ἐκδιδῶται τῷ πωλοδάμνῃ ἐπιμελητέον. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 2 4:1)
  • Καθάπερ ἀγαθὸσ πωλοδάμνησ οὐ τῶν πώλων τοὺσ μὲν ἀγαθοὺσ τρέφει, τοὺσ δὲ δυσηνίουσ λιμώττειν ἐᾷ, ἀλλὰ τρέφει μὲν ἐπ’ ἴσησ ἄμφω, κολάζει δὲ μᾶλλον θάτερον ἐξισοῦν θατέρῳ βιαζόμενοσ μέρει· (Epictetus, Works, gnomologium epicteteum e( stobaei libris 3-4) 63:1)

Synonyms

  1. a horsebreaker

Similar forms

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

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