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ὑποτελής?

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration: hypotelēs

Principal Part: ὑποτελής ὑποτελές

Structure: ὑποτελη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: τέλος IV

Sense

  1. subject to pay taxes, taxable, tributary
  2. receiving as payment

Examples

  • καὶ γὰρ μαχιμώτατοί εἰσιν ἐς τοῦτο ἔτι καὶ τοῖς Τραπεζουντίοις ἐχθρότατοι, καὶ χωρία ὀχυρὰ οἰκοῦσιν, ἔθνος ἀβασίλευτον καὶ πάλαι μὲν καὶ φόρου ὑποτελὲς Ῥωμαίοις, ὑπὸ δὲ τοῦ λῃστεύειν οὐκ ἀκριβοῦσιν τὴν ἀποφοράν. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 11 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. receiving as payment

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

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