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ἀφήγησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀφήγησις

Structure: ἀφηγησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: From a)fhge/omai

Sense

  1. a telling, narrating, telling

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

  • ὁ δὲ οὐ ταῦτα λέγει εὐθύσ, ἀλλὰ τὴν ἀρχὴν ἐξ ἧσ ἤρξατο ταῦτα γίνεσθαι, δοκεῖ δὲ τὸ τοιοῦτο ἀφήγησισ εἶναι μᾶλλον. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , chapter 2 18:8)
  • 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)
  • διέξειμι δ’ αὐτοῦ τὰσ πράξεισ τάσ τε πολιτικασ καὶ τὰσ κατὰ πολέμουσ, ὧν καὶ λόγον ἄν τισ ἐν ἱστορίασ ἀφηγήσει ποιήσαιτο. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 7 1:2)
  • 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)
  • σκιδναμένων δὲ ἑτέρων ἐφ’ ἑτέροισ, οὐ γὰρ εἰσ ἕνα ἔκειτο πᾶσιν ἀφήγησισ, Σίμων ἀνὴρ γένοσ Ἐσσαῖοσ ἀσφάλειαν αἰτησάμενοσ, μεταβολὴν πραγμάτων ἔλεγεν Ἀρχελάῳ φέρειν τὴν ὄψιν οὐκ ἐπ’ ἀγαθοῖσ πράγμασιν· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 17 418:1)

Synonyms

  1. a telling

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

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