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θεόπεμπτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θεόπεμπτος θεόπεμπτον

Structure: θεοπεμπτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pe/mpw

Sense

  1. sent by the gods

Examples

  • ἐν Ῥώμῃ πολλὰ μὲν καὶ ἄλλα σημεῖα θεόπεμπτα γέγονε, μέγιστον δ’ ἁπάντων τόδε· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 14, chapter 11 2:1)
  • ποιήσασθαι δὲ τοὺσ Ἰλιεῖσ νεών τε καὶ ἄδυτον αὐτοῖσ ἐπὶ τῆσ ἄκρασ καὶ φυλάττειν δι’ ἐπιμελείασ ὅσησ ἐδύναντο πλείστησ θεόπεμπτά τε ἡγουμένουσ εἶναι καὶ σωτηρίασ κύρια τῇ πόλει. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 69 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. sent by the gods

Related

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

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