Hellas Alive Dictionary - αφηγησις

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ἀφήγησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀφήγησις

Structure: ἀφηγησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: From a)fhge/omai

Sense

a telling, narrating, telling

Declension

Third declension

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἀφήγησις	ἀφηγήσει	ἀφηγήσεις
Genitive	ἀφηγήσεως	ἀφηγήσοιν	ἀφηγήσεων
Dative	ἀφηγήσει	ἀφηγήσοιν	ἀφηγήσεσιν*
Accusative	ἀφήγησιν	ἀφηγήσει	ἀφηγήσεις
Vocative	ἀφήγησι	ἀφηγήσει	ἀφηγήσεις

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

ἐπὶ μὲν δὴ τούτων τῶν ὑπάτων οὐδὲν ἐπράχθη Ῥωμαίοισ διὰ τὰσ νόσουσ οὔτε πολεμικὸν οὔτε πολιτικὸν εἰσ ἱστορίασ ἀφήγησιν ἐλθεῖν ἄξιον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 10, chapter 53 11:3)
ἀλλ̓ ἐμοὶ Πτολεμαῖόσ τε καὶ Ἀριστόβουλοσ πιστότεροι ἔδοξαν ἐσ τὴν ἀφήγησιν, ὁ μὲν ὅτι συνεστράτευσε βασιλεῖ Ἀλεξάνδρῳ, Ἀριστόβουλοσ, Πτολεμαῖοσ δὲ πρὸσ τῷ ξυστρατεῦσαι ὅτι καὶ αὐτῷ βασιλεῖ ὄντι αἰσχρότερον ἢ τῳ ἄλλῳ ψεύσασθαι ἦν· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 1, chapter pr 2:2)
οὕτωσ οὐδὲ οἱ πάνυ πιστοὶ ἐσ τὴν ἀφήγησιν καὶ ξυγγενόμενοι ἐν τῷ τότε Ἀλεξάνδρῳ ὑπὲρ τῶν γνωρίμων τε καὶ οὐ λαθόντων σφᾶσ ὅπωσ ἐπράχθη ξύμφωνα ἀνέγραψαν. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 4, chapter 14 3:2)
ταῦτα μὲν δὴ οὐ πολλῷ ὕστερον πραχθέντα ἐγὼ ἐν τοῖσδε τοῖσ ἀμφὶ Κλεῖτον ξυνενεχθεῖσιν Ἀλεξάνδρῳ ἀνέγραψα, τούτοισ μᾶλλόν τι οἰκεῖα ὑπολαβὼν ἐσ τὴν ἀφήγησιν. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 4, chapter 14 4:2)
ὑπὲρ ὧν ἐγὼ οὔτε οἷστισι νόμοισ διαχρῶνται ἐν τῇδε τῇ συγγραφῇ ἀνέγραψα, οὔτε ζῷα εἰ δή τινα ἄτοπα ἡ χώρα αὐτοῖσ ἐκφέρει, οὔτε ἰχθύασ ἢ κήτη ὅσα ἢ οἱᾶ ὁ Ἰνδὸσ ἢ ὁ Ὑδάσπησ ἢ ὁ Γάγγησ ἢ οἱ ἄλλοι Ἰνδῶν ποταμοὶ φέρουσιν, οὐδὲ τοὺσ μύρμηκασ τοὺσ τὸν χρυσόν σφισιν ἐργαζομένουσ, οὐδὲ τοὺσ γρῦπασ τοὺσ φύλακασ, οὐδὲ ὅσα ἄλλα ἐφ̓ ἡδονῇ μᾶλλόν τι πεποίηται ἢ ἐσ ἀφήγησιν τῶν ὄντων, ὡσ τά γε κατ̓ Ἰνδοὺσ ὅσα ἂν ἄτοπα ψεύσωνται, οὐκ ἐξελεγχθησόμενα πρὸσ οὐδαμῶν. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 5, chapter 4 3:2)

Synonyms

a telling
- ἐξήγησις (narration)

Similar forms

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

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a telling

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