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ζητητής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ζητητής ζητητοῦ

Structure: ζητητ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: zhte/w

Sense

  1. a seeker, inquirer
  2. commissioners to inquire into state-offences

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

  • ἐξελέγχοντεσ δὲ τὸ πρᾶγμα ἥ τε βουλὴ καὶ οἱ ζητηταί, ἐπειδὴ ἦν ᾗ ἐγὼ ἔλεγον καὶ ὡμολογεῖτο πανταχόθεν, τότε δὴ καλοῦσι τὸν Διοκλείδην· (Andocides, Speeches, 110:1)
  • Καὶ ζητηταὶ διέθεον ἐπὶ τοὺσ ἄνδρασ, οἳ Σουλπίκιον μὲν καταλαβόντεσ ἔκτειναν· (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 1, chapter 7 6:5)
  • Ζητηταὶ δ’ ἐπὶ τοὺσ ἐχθροὺσ αὐτίκα ἐξέθεον τούσ τε ἀπὸ τῆσ βουλῆσ καὶ τῶν καλουμένων ἱππέων, καὶ τῶν μὲν ἱππέων ἀναιρουμένων λόγοσ οὐδεὶσ ἔτι μετὰ τὴν ἀναίρεσιν ἐγίγνετο, αἱ δὲ τῶν βουλευτῶν κεφαλαὶ πᾶσαι προυτίθεντο πρὸ τῶν ἐμβόλων. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 1, chapter 8 8:7)
  • ἐπὶ δὲ τοὺσ τῆσ πόλεωσ ἐκφυγόντασ ζητηταὶ πάντα μαστεύοντεσ διέθεον καὶ ὅσουσ αὐτῶν λάβοιεν ἀνῄρουν. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 1, chapter 11 1:10)

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

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