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Ἐπιμηθεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἐπιμηθεύς Ἐπιμηθέως

Structure: Ἐπιμηθευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: mh=dos

Sense

  1. Epi-metheus, after-thought, Pro-metheus, fore-thought

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ δόλον αἰπὺν ἀμήχανον ἐξετέλεσσεν, εἰσ Ἐπιμηθέα πέμπε πατὴρ κλυτὸν Ἀργεϊφόντην δῶρον ἄγοντα, θεῶν ταχὺν ἄγγελον· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 13:1)
  • τίκτε δ’ ὑπερκύδαντα Μενοίτιον ἠδὲ Προμηθέα ποικίλον αἰολόμητιν, ἁμαρτίνοόν τ’ Ἐπιμηθέα ὃσ κακὸν ἐξ ἀρχῆσ γένετ’ ἀνδράσιν ἀλφηστῇσιν· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 48:3)
  • βίου γίγνεται, Προμηθέα δὲ δι’ Ἐπιμηθέα ὕστερον, ᾗπερ λέγεται, κλοπῆσ δίκη μετῆλθεν. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 109:1)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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