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σύσσιτος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σύσσιτος

Sense

  1. one who eats together, a messmate

Examples

  • Μίλητον μὲν ἐά καὶ τὴν νεόκτιστον ἐν Θρηίκῃ πόλιν, σὺ δέ μοι ἑπόμενοσ ἐσ Σοῦσα ἔχε τά περ ἂν ἐγὼ ἔχω, ἐμόσ τε σύσσιτοσ ἐὼν καὶ σύμβουλοσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 5, chapter 24 5:2)
  • ἀλλὰ γυναικῶν μὲν μία σύσσιτοσ ἦν ἡ μήτηρ, παίδων δὲ εἷσ ἀδελφὸσ, φίλοι δὲ οἱ ταὐτὰ προῃρημένοι καὶ κατὰ τοὺσ αὐτοὺσ συνιόντεσ λόγουσ· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 3:7)

Synonyms

  1. one who eats together

Related

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

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