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χρησμοποιός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χρησμοποιός χρησμοποιόν

Structure: χρησμοποι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: poie/w

Sense

  1. making oracles in verse

Examples

  • λαμβάνων δὲ οὐκ αὐτὸσ ἐχρῆτο μόνοσ οὐδ’ εἰσ πλοῦτον ἀπεθησαύριζεν, ἀλλὰ πολλοὺσ ἤδη περὶ αὑτὸν ἔχων συνεργοὺσ καὶ ὑπηρέτασ καὶ πευθῆνασ καὶ χρησμοποιοὺσ καὶ χρησμοφύλακασ καὶ ὑπογραφέασ καὶ ἐπισφραγιστὰσ καὶ ἐξηγητάσ, ἅπασιν ἔνεμεν ἑκάστῳ τὸ κατ’ ἀξίαν. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 23:3)

Similar forms

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

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