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θεοπρόπος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: θεοπρόπος θεοπρόπον

Structure: θεοπροπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pre/pw

Sense

  1. foretelling things by a spirit of prophecy, prophetic
  2. a seer, prophet, diviner
  3. a public messenger sent to enquire of the oracle

Examples

  • "θεοπρόπων γὰρ ἀπὸ ξένησ παραγενομένων, λέγεται τὰσ πρώτασ κατασπείσεισ ἀκίνητον ὑπομεῖναι καὶ ἀπαθὲσ τὸ ἱερεῖον· (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 512)
  • ἀπελθόντων ὦν τῶν θεοπρόπων, ἐξέφερον τὸ χρηστήριον ἁλίην ποιησάμενοι· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 5, chapter 79 3:1)
  • οὕτω δὴ ἡ Πυθίη ἐπειρωτώντων τῶν θεοπρόπων ἔκρινε μὴ Ἀρίστωνοσ εἶναι Δημάρητον παῖδα. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 6, chapter 66 4:1)

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

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