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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

  • τοῦ δ’ Ἀρχιτέλουσ ἀθυμοῦντοσ ἐπὶ τούτῳ καὶ βαρέωσ φέροντοσ, εἰσέπεμψεν ὁ Θεμιστοκλῆσ πρὸσ αὐτὸν ἐν κίστῃ δεῖπνον ἄρτων καὶ κρεῶν, ὑποθεὶσ κάτω τάλαντον ἀργυρίου καὶ κελεύσασ αὐτόν τε δειπνεῖν ἐν τῷ παρόντι καὶ μεθ’ ἡμέραν ἐπιμεληθῆναι τῶν τριηριτῶν· (Plutarch, , chapter 7 6:1)
  • ἔδεισαν δὲ καὶ τῶν τριηριτῶν πολλοὶ καὶ ἔφευγον εἰσ τὴν θάλατταν, καὶ Κλέανδροσ δ’ ἔφευγε. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 6 8:5)
  • τοῦτο καὶ ὁπλίταισ ἀγαθὸν παράδειγμα καὶ ἱππεῦσι καὶ τοξόταισ καὶ τριηρίταισ καὶ πᾶσι πόλεωσ πληρώμασιν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 93:1)

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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