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φιλαργυρίαν (philargyrian)

φιλαργυρίαν is an Ancient Greek form of φιλαργυρία, meaning “love of money, avarice”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 30 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.2.50: … Διὸς παῖς καλλίνικος Ἡρακλῆς ἐνθάδε κατοικεῖ. μηδὲν εἰσίτω κακόν· ἐπέγραψε· μετὰ τὸν πόλεμον ἡ συμμαχία. τὴν φιλαργυρίαν εἶπε μητρόπολιν πάντων τῶν κακῶν. ἄσωτον θεασάμενος ἐν πανδοκείῳ ἐλάας ἐσθίοντʼ ἔφη, εἰ οὕτως ἠρίστας, οὐκ ἂν …

All forms of φιλαργυρία (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.