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ὑδροπότης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑδροπότης ὑδροπότου

Structure: ὑδροποτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. a water-drinker, a thin-blooded, mean-spirited fellow

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

  • Μᾶτρισ δ’ ὁ Θηβαῖοσ ὃν ἐβίω χρόνον οὐδὲν ἐσιτεῖτο ἢ μυρρίνησ ὀλίγον, οἴνου δὲ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων πάντων ἀπείχετο πλὴν ὕδατοσ, ὑδροπότησ δ’ ἦν καὶ Λάμπροσ ὁ μουσικόσ, περὶ οὗ Φρύνιχόσ φησι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 21 1:3)
  • τῶν Διονυσίων ἐν τῇ Ῥώμῃ ἀγομένων Ἀρούντιοσ ἐκ γενετῆσ ὑδροπότησ ἐξουδένιζε τὴν τοῦ θεοῦ δύναμιν ὁ δὲ μέθην ἐνέβαλε, καὶ ἐβιάσατο τὴν θυγατέρα Μεδουλλίναν. (Plutarch, Parallela minora, section 19 1:2)
  • τῶν Διονυσίων ἐν τῇ Ῥώμῃ ἀγομένων, Ἀρούντιοσ ἐκ γενετῆσ ὑδροπότησ; (Plutarch, Parallela minora, section 19 3:2)

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

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