Δημόκομπος

people-flatterer

Translated by Carl Widstrand8 Jan 2000Vetting: high3 revisions

5 words

[Meaning] he who is talkative/wordy.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Δημόκομπος· ὁ στωμύλος.

Betacode

*dhmo/kompos: o( stwmu/los.

Same entry in ps.-Zonaras and, according to Adler, the Ambrosian Lexicon. The headword dhmo/kompos is otherwise unattested -- and it might, as is suggested in the Supplement to LSJ, be a variant of or mistake for dhmo/kopos (cf. delta 444).