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τριταγωνιστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τριταγωνιστής τριταγωνιστοῦ

Structure: τριταγωνιστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. the player who took the third part, a third-rate actor

Examples

  • ἴστε γὰρ δήπου τοῦθ’ ὅτι ἐν ἅπασι τοῖσ δράμασι τοῖσ τραγικοῖσ ἐξαίρετόν ἐστιν ὥσπερ γέρασ τοῖσ τριταγωνισταῖσ τὸ τοὺσ τυράννουσ καὶ τοὺσ τὰ σκῆπτρ’ ἔχοντασ εἰσιέναι. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 324:1)

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

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