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χρηματιστής?

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: chrēmatistēs

Principal Part: χρηματιστής χρηματιστοῦ

Structure: χρηματιστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. a man in business, money-getter, trafficker

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

  • ἦν δὲ καὶ περὶ τἆλλα χρηματιστὴς ἀργότερος, εὐδάπανος δὲ καὶ ἀφειδὴς ἐκ τῶν ὑπαρχόντων, οὐ πολλὰ δ ἦν, ἀλλὰ καὶ φερνῆς ὀφειλομένης τῇ γυναικὶ μετὰ τὸν θάνατον αὐτοῦ γλίσχρως ἐξήρκεσεν. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 4 3:1)
  • γέγονε δὲ καὶ πατὴρ ἀγαθὸς καὶ περὶ γυναῖκα χρηστὸς ἀνὴρ καὶ χρηματιστὴς οὐκ εὐκαταφρόνητος οὐδ ὥς τι μικρὸν ἢ φαῦλον ἐν παρέργῳ μεταχειρισάμενος τὴν τοιαύτην ἐπιμέλειαν. (Plutarch, Marcus Cato, chapter 20 1:1)
  • καίτοι πάντας οἶμαι τοῦθ ὑμᾶς εἰδέναι, τίς ἦν χρηματιστὴς ὁ πατήρ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 34:1)
  • σύντονον δὲ αὐτὸν γεγονέναι χρηματιστὴν οἱ μέν τινές φασι δι ἐλευθεριότητα: (Plutarch, , chapter 5 1:1)
  • παρ ὧν ἂν καὶ σὲ οἶμαι, εἰ βούλοιο, μαθόντα, εἴ σοι ὁ θεὸς μὴ ἐναντιοῖτο, πάνυ ἂν δεινὸν χρηματιστὴν γενέσθαι. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 2 19:2)
  • ὁ δὲ χρηματιστὴς βίαιός τις ἐστίν, καὶ ὁ πλοῦτος δῆλον ὅτι οὐ τὸ ζητούμενον ἀγαθόν: (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1 33:1)
  • οὐ τὰ αὑτοῦ ἄρα ἔτι πράττει ὁ χρηματιστής. (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 172:2)

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

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