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στατήρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: στατήρ στατῆρος

Structure: στατηρ (Stem)

Etym.: sth=nai

Sense

  1. gold stater, Daric, l., s.
  2. silver stater

Declension

Third 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

  • κατεχόμενοι δὲ ὑφ’ ἡμῶν καὶ ἐλεγχόμενοι εἴ τι περιγένοιτο τῶν χρημάτων ἐν τῷ Πόντῳ, ἀπεκρίνατο Λάκριτοσ οὑτοσί, ὅτι ἑκατὸν στατῆρεσ Κυζικηνοὶ περιγένοιντο, καὶ τοῦτο τὸ χρυσίον δεδανεικὼσ εἰή ἁδελφὸσ αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ Πόντῳ ναυκλήρῳ τινὶ Φασηλίτῃ, πολίτῃ καὶ ἐπιτηδείῳ ἑαυτοῦ, καὶ οὐ δύναιτο κομίσασθαι, ἀλλὰ σχεδόν τι ἀπολωλὸσ εἰή καὶ τοῦτο. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 58:1)
  • ὥσπερ τὰ δηνάρια καὶ οἱ στατῆρεσ, αὐτὰ μὲν καθ’ αὑτὰ ὑπάρχει δηνάρια καὶ στατῆρεσ· (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 4, 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. silver stater

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

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