A.ambassador, acc. sg. πρέσβεια (i. e. -ηα or -εα) Hoffmann Griech. Dialekte ii No. 160.31 (Lampasacus); dat. pl. “πρεσβεῦσι” Lyc.1056, v. l. in Anon. in EN 200.14; nom. dual “πρεσβῆ” Ar.Fr.639: Sch. Ar. denies that “πρέσβεως” Ar.Ach. 93 is gen. of this word: Boeot. pl. πρισγεῖες IG7.2418.6, 18 (Thebes, iv B. C.), 1720.6 (Thespiae, ii B. C.) (πρεσβῆες in Hes.Sc.245 belongs in form to this word, in meaning to “πρέσβυς” 1.1).
πρεσβ-εύς , έως, ὁ,
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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