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σὴ λαμπρότης

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Pronoun

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σὴ λᾰμπρότης (sḕ lamprótēsf (genitive σῆς λᾰμπρότητος); first and third declension

  1. (Koine and Byzantine) Your Serene Highness(es)
    • 5th–6th centuries, “LIX. Fragment of loan [Bodl. MS. Gr. class. e. 35 (P)]” (papyrus 59, probably from Hermopolis; pages 95–96), in Bernard Pyne Grenfell, editor, An Alexandrian Erotic Fragment and other Greek Papyri chiefly Ptolemaic, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, published 1896, § E. Papyri of the Byzantine Period, page 96, lines 1–6:
      εἰς ἰδίαν ἡμῶν καὶ ἀναγκαίαν χρείαν, λόγω προχρείας ἡ[μ]ᾶς
      ὀφείλειν αὐτῆ χρυσοῦ κεφαλαίου νομισμάτια δεσποτικὰ
      δόκιμα ἁπλᾶ ἕξ, ἕκαστον παρὰ κεράτια τρία τῶ χρυσοχοϊκῶ
      σταθμῶ, γι χρ/ νᵒ ϛ π κερ ιη χρ/, ἐπὶ τῶ ταῦτα εἶναι παρ’ ἡμῖν
      λόγω προχρείας ἐφ’ ὅτον χρόνον γεωργοῦμεν τὸ κτῆμα τῆς σῆς
      λαμπρότητος
      , τὸ διακείμενον ἐν τῆ αὐτῆ νήσω καλούμενον
      eis idían hēmôn kaì anankaían khreían, lógō prokhreías hē[m]âs
      opheílein autê khrusoû kephalaíou nomismátia despotikà
      dókima haplâ héx, hékaston parà kerátia tría tô khrusokhoïkô
      stathmô, gínetai khrusoû nomismátia 6 parà kerátia 18 khrusoû [nomismátia], epì tô taûta eînai par’ hēmîn
      lógō prokhreías eph’ hóton khrónon geōrgoûmen tò ktêma tês sês
      lamprótētos
      , tò diakeímenon en tê autê nḗsō kaloúmenon
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