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τριηρίτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τριηρίτης τριηρίτου

Structure: τριηριτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. a trireme-man

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

  • ἐναντιουμένου δ’ αὐτῷ μάλιστα τῶν πολιτῶν Ἀρχιτέλουσ, ὃσ ἦν μὲν ἐπὶ τῆσ ἱερᾶσ νεὼσ τριήραρχοσ, οὐκ ἔχων δὲ χρήματα τοῖσ ναύταισ χορηγεῖν ἔσπευδεν ἀποπλεῦσαι, παρώξυνεν ἔτι μᾶλλον ὁ Θεμιστοκλῆσ τοὺσ τριηρίτασ ἐπ’ αὐτόν, ὥστε τὸ δεῖπνον ἁρπάσαι συνδραμόντασ. (Plutarch, , chapter 7 5:2)
  • ὅμοιον γὰρ ἂν ποιήσαιτε ὥσπερ εἰ κυβερνήτασ καὶ ναυάρχουσ τῶν τριήρων ἀποδείξαιτε τοὺσ τριηρίτασ ἢ τοὺσ κελευστάσ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 28:2)
  • τοὺσ δὲ τριηρίτασ τοὺσ ἕλκοντασ ὑπὸ τούτων ἀλλοφρονῆσαι, παθόντασ δὲ τοῦτο κτείνειν ἀλλήλουσ ἅτε πολεμίουσ, ἐσ ὃ ἐκ πάντων ἕνα λειφθέντα ἀνακομισθῆναι αὐτὸν ἐσ Φάληρον. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 5, chapter 85 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. a trireme-man

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

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