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ζευγηλάτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ζευγηλάτης ζευγηλάτου

Structure: ζευγηλατ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: e)lau/nw

Sense

  1. the driver of a yoke of oxen, teamster

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

  • "ὁ δὲ ἐπὰν προίδηται ἁρπάσασ τὰ ὅπλα μάχεται πρὸ τοῦ ζεύγουσ ἐν ῥυθμῷ πρὸσ τὸν αὐλόν καὶ τέλοσ ὁ λῃστὴσ δήσασ τὸν ἄνδρα τὸ ζεῦγοσ ἀπάγει, ἐνίοτε δὲ καὶ ὁ ζευγηλάτησ τὸν λῃστὴν εἶτα παρὰ τοὺσ βοῦσ δήσασ ὀπίσω τὼ χεῖρε δεδεμένον ἐλαύνει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 27 2:8)
  • ἐνίοτε δὲ καὶ ὁ ζευγηλάτησ τὸν λῃστήν· (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 1 10:1)
  • ἐφ’ οἷσ καὶ Μάρκοσ ἀγανακτῶν εἶπέ ποτε πρὸσ τὸν δῆμον ὅτι μάλιστ’ ἂν κατίδοιεν τὴν ἐπὶ τὸ χεῖρον προκοπὴν τῆσ πολιτείασ ἐκ τούτων, ὅταν πωλούμενοι πλεῖον εὑρίσκωσιν οἱ μὲν εὐπρεπεῖσ παῖδεσ τῶν ἀγρῶν, τὰ δὲ κεράμια τοῦ ταρίχου τῶν ζευγηλατῶν. (Polybius, Histories, book 31, chapter 25 6:1)

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

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