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Ἐπιμηθεύς?

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: Epimētheus

Principal Part: Ἐπιμηθεύς Ἐπιμηθέως

Structure: Ἐπιμηθευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: μῆδος

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)
  • οὐδ Ἐπιμηθεὺς ἐφράσαθ, ὥς οἱ ἐείπε Προμηθεὺς μή ποτε δῶρον δέξασθαι πὰρ Ζηνὸς Ὀλυμπίου, ἀλλ ἀποπέμπειν ἐξοπίσω, μή πού τι κακὸν θνητοῖσι γένηται. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 13:2)
  • τίκτε δ ὑπερκύδαντα Μενοίτιον ἠδὲ Προμηθέα ποικίλον αἰολόμητιν, ἁμαρτίνοόν τ Ἐπιμηθέα ὃς κακὸν ἐξ ἀρχῆς γένετ ἀνδράσιν ἀλφηστῇσιν: (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 48:3)
  • Ιαπετοῦ δὲ καὶ Ἀσίας Ἄτλας, ὃς ἔχει τοῖς ὤμοις τὸν οὐρανόν, καὶ Προμηθεὺς καὶ Ἐπιμηθεὺς καὶ Μενοίτιος, ὃν κεραυνώσας ἐν τῇ τιτανομαχία Ζεὺς κατεταρτάρωσεν. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 1, chapter 2 3:1)
  • Προμηθέα δὲ παραιτεῖται Ἐπιμηθεὺς αὐτὸς νεῖμαι, "νείμαντος δέ μου," ἔφη, "ἐπίσκεψαι: (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 100:2)
  • ἅτε δὴ οὖν οὐ πάνυ τι σοφὸς ὢν ὁ Ἐπιμηθεὺς ἔλαθεν αὑτὸν καταναλώσας τὰς δυνάμεις εἰς τὰ ἄλογα: (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 104:4)
  • " ἐγὼ οὖν, ὦ Πρωταγόρα, πάντα ταῦτα καθορῶν ἄνω κάτω ταραττόμενα δεινῶς, πᾶσαν προθυμίαν ἔχω καταφανῆ αὐτὰ γενέσθαι, καὶ βουλοίμην ἂν ταῦτα διεξελθόντας ἡμᾶς ἐξελθεῖν καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν ἀρετὴν ὅτι ἔστιν, καὶ πάλιν ἐπισκέψασθαι περὶ αὐτοῦ εἴτε διδακτὸν εἴτε μὴ διδακτόν, μὴ πολλάκις ἡμᾶς ὁ Ἐπιμηθεὺς ἐκεῖνος καὶ ἐν τῇ σκέψει σφήλῃ ἐξαπατήσας, ὥσπερ καὶ ἐν τῇ διανομῇ ἠμέλησεν ἡμῶν, ὡς φῂς σύ. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 421:2)

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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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