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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

  • ὃν ἐπαινῶν Ἀντιφάνησ ἐν τῷ Τριταγωνιστῇ φησι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 50 5:1)
  • οὗτοσ πρῶτοσ τρισὶν ἐχρήσατο ὑποκριταῖσ καὶ τῷ καλουμένῳ τριταγωνιστῇ, καὶ πρῶτοσ τὸν χορὸν ἐκ πεντεκαίδεκα εἰσήγαγε νέων, πρότερον δυοκαίδεκα εἰσιόντων. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , section3)

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

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