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παντο-δα^πός , ή, όν, (cf. ἀλλοδαπός)
A.of every kind, of all sorts, manifold, ἄνθεα, χρόϊαι, καρπός, h.Cer.402, Sapph.20, A.Th.357 (lyr.), etc.; “παντοδαπᾶς ἐπὶ γᾶς” E. Hel.525 (lyr., s. v.l.); π. ἱστορία miscellaneous, D.L.5.5; τὸ π. [τῆς λέξεως] Phld.Rh.1.198 S.; of every country, ποδαπὸς εἶ; Answ. “π.” Luc.Vit.Auct.8: in pl., “πολλοὶ καὶ π.” Hdt.9.84; παντοδαποὶ τῆς στρατιῆς, = π. στρατιῶται, Id.7.22: contemptuously, “δοῦλοι καὶ ξένοι π.” And.2.23; “πολλὴ καὶ π. ἄγνοια” Pl.Sph.228e: Comp. “-ώτερος” Arist. HA525b3: Sup. “-ώτατος” Hp.Aër.9, Isoc.15.295. Adv. -πῶς in all kinds of ways, ἐσθλοὶ μὲν γὰρ ἁπλῶς, π. δὲ κακοί Poet. ap. Arist.EN 1106b35, cf. Pl.Prm.130a, etc.; “π. ἔχειν” Arist.EN1100a27.
2. παντοδαπὸς γίγνεται assumes every shape, Ar.Ra.289, Pl.R.398a; “ὥσπερ ὁ Πρωτεὺς π. γίγνει” Id.Ion541e.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (15):
    • Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 357
    • Andocides, On his Return, 23
    • Aristophanes, Frogs, 289
    • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1106b.35
    • Euripides, Helen, 525
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.22
    • Herodotus, Histories, 9.84
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 2 to Demeter, 402
    • Isocrates, Antidosis, 295
    • Plato, Republic, 398a
    • Plato, Sophist, 228e
    • Plato, Parmenides, 130a
    • Plato, Ion, 541e
    • Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum, 5.5
    • Lucian, Vitarum auctio, 8
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