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τελώνης

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τελώνης τελώνου

Structure: τελων (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: te/los V

Sense

  1. a farmer or collector or the tolls, customs or taxes of a state, tax collector

Declension

First 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

  • οἱο͂ν ὡσ ὁ τελώνησ ὁ Διομέδων· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ad Ammaeum, chapter 12 2:3)
  • κᾆτα ὁ τελώνησ Αἰακὸσ ἀγανακτήσει μηδ’ ὀβολὸν ἐμπολῶν. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 2:7)
  • ἐλέγοντο δὲ εἶναι μοιχοὶ καὶ πορνοβοσκοὶ καὶ τελῶναι καὶ κόλακεσ καὶ συκοφάνται καὶ τοιοῦτοσ ὅμιλοσ τῶν πάντα κυκώντων ἐν τῷ βίῳ. (Lucian, Necyomantia, (no name) 11:3)
  • τελώνην δὲ ἵππον ἢ συκοφάντην βάτραχον ἢ σοφιστὴν κολοιὸν ἢ ὀψοποιὸν κώνωπα ἢ κίναιδον ἀλεκτρυόνα καὶ τἆλλα ὅσα ὑμεῖσ ἐπιτηδεύετε, οὐκ ἂν ἴδοισ ἐν ἐκείνοισ. (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 27:3)
  • παῖε παῖε τὸν πανοῦργον καὶ ταραξιππόστρατον καὶ τελώνην καὶ φάραγγα καὶ Χάρυβδιν ἁρπαγῆσ, καὶ πανοῦργον καὶ πανοῦργον· (Aristotle, Parodos, trochees8)
  • καὶ μὴν ὀλίγου χρόνου καὶ βίου τοῖσ ἀνθρώποισ δεδομένου, ὁ μὲν Ἀρίστων φησὶν ὅτι ὁ ὕπνοσ οἱο͂ν τελώνησ τὸ ἣμισυ ἀφαιρεῖ τούτου· (Plutarch, Aquane an ignis sit utilior, chapter, section 123)
  • "ὦ Παῦλε, στενάξειασ ὑπὸ γῆσ, αἰσθόμενοσ ὅτι σου τὸν υἱὸν ἐπὶ τιμητικὴν ἀρχὴν καταβαίνοντα Φιλόνικοσ ὁ τελώνησ δορυφορεῖ" τὰ γὰρ τοιαῦτα νουθετεῖ τοὺσ ἁμαρτάνοντασ ἅμα καὶ κοσμεῖ τοὺσ νουθετοῦντασ. (Plutarch, Praecepta gerendae reipublicae, chapter, section 14 19:1)
  • εἰ γὰρ θατέρῳ ὑπάρχει τὸ καλῶσ ἢ δικαίωσ ποιῆσαι, θατέρῳ τὸ πεπονθέναι, καὶ εἰ <τὸ> κελεῦσαι, καὶ τὸ πεποιηκέναι, οἱο͂ν ὡσ ὁ τελώνησ Διομέδων περὶ τῶν τελῶν, "εἰ γὰρ μηδ’ ὑμῖν αἰσχρὸν τὸ πωλεῖν, οὐδ’ ἡμῖν τὸ ὠνεῖσθαι" . (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 23 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. a farmer or collector or the tolls

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