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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

  • ὅτι Φύλαρχόσ φησι Θεόδωρον τὸν Λαρισσαῖον ὑδροπότην γενέσθαι, τὸν ἀλλοτρίωσ ἀεί ποτε πρὸσ Ἀντίγονον ἐσχηκότα τὸν βασιλέα, φησὶ δὲ καὶ τοὺσ Ἴβηρασ πάντασ ὑδροποτεῖν καίτοι πλουσιωτάτουσ ἀνθρώπων ὄντασ, μονοσιτεῖν τε αὐτοὺσ ἀεὶ λέγει διὰ μικρολογίαν, ἐσθῆτασ δὲ φορεῖν πολυτελεστάτασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 211)
  • Πύθερμοσ δὲ ἐν τοῖσ Πειραιῶσ τυραννεύουσι καταγράφει καὶ Γλαύκωνα ὑδροπότην. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 21 1:1)
  • 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)
  • Μάχων δ’ ὁ κωμικὸσ ὑδροπότου Μοσχίωνοσ μέμνηται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 21 2:2)
  • "ὁ μὲν γὰρ ὑδροποτῶν καὶ μεριμνῶν τὰσ νύκτασ, ὥσ φασιν, ὁ δὲ πορνοβοσκῶν καὶ μεθυσκόμενοσ κατὰ τὴν ἡμέραν ἑκάστην προγάστωρ ἡμῖν ἐν ταῖσ ἐκκλησίαισ ἀνακαλεῖ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 22 2:1)
  • 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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