Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

θητικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θητικός θητική θητικόν

Structure: θητικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qh/s

Sense

  1. of or for a hireling, menial

Examples

  • θητικοῦ ἀντὶ τέλουσ ἱππάδ’ ἀμειψάμενοσ. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 7 4:7)
  • ἦσαν γάρ τινεσ ἐκ τοῦ θητικοῦ πλήθουσ, οἷσ οὐκ ἐφαίνετο ἀποχρῶσα εἶναι βοήθεια ἡ παρὰ τῆσ βουλῆσ ἐλπὶσ φανερὸν οὐδὲ βέβαιον ἔχουσα οὐδέν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 5, chapter 69 4:2)

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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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