suitor

From LSJ

Θέλομεν καλῶς ζῆν πάντες, ἀλλ' οὐ δυνάμεθα → Bene vivere omnes volumus, at non possumus → Gut leben wollen wir alle, doch wir können es nicht

Menander, Monostichoi, 236

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

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substantive

in a law suit: P. ἀντίδικος, ὁ or ἡ.

wooer: P. and V. μνηστήρ, ὁ (found in Thuc. and Plato but only in reference to the Odyssean suitors), V. παλαιστής, ὁ (Aesch., Agamemnon 1206).