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ἀφοσίωσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀφοσίωσις

Structure: ἀφοσιωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: From a)fosio/w

Sense

  1. expiation, form's sake

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

  • Ἀντίγονοσ μὲν γὰρ ἀφοσιώσεωσ ἕνεκεν ἐν ἀρχῇ τῶν βασιλέων ἐπιμνησθείσ τὸν λοιπὸν ὁρ́κον εἰσ ἑαυτὸν ὡρ́κιζεν, Εὐμένησ δὲ πρώτην μὲν ἐνέγραψε τοῖσ ὁρ́κοισ Ὀλυμπιάδα μετὰ τῶν βασιλέων, ἔπειτα ὤμνυεν οὐκ Ἀντιγόνῳ μόνον εὐνοήσειν οὐδ’ ἐκείνῳ τὸν αὐτὸν ἐχθρὸν ἕξειν καὶ φίλον, ἀλλὰ καὶ Ὀλυμπιάδι καὶ τοῖσ βασιλεῦσιν. (Plutarch, chapter 12 2:1)
  • "διὰ τί Τραλλιανοὶ καθαρτῆρα καλοῦσι τὸν ὄροβον καὶ χρῶνται μάλιστα πρὸσ τὰσ ἀφοσιώσεισ καὶ τοὺσ καθαρμούσ; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 461)
  • "διὰ τί Τραλλιανοὶ καθαρτῆρα καλοῦσι τὸν ὄροβον καὶ χρῶνται μάλιστα πρὸσ τὰσ ἀφοσιώσεισ καὶ τοὺσ καθαρμούσ; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 461)
  • προὔπεμπον δὲ πολλαὶ μυριάδεσ ἀνδρῶν καὶ γυναικῶν, ὧν ὄψισ μὲν ἦν ἑορτῇ πρέπουσα, πάντων ἐστεφανωμένων καὶ καθαρὰσ ἐσθῆτασ φορούντων, φωναὶ δὲ καὶ δάκρυα συγκεκραμένα τῷ μακαρισμῷ τοῦ τεθνηκότοσ οὐ τιμῆσ ἀφοσίωσιν οὐδὲ λειτουργίαν ἐκ προβουλεύματοσ, ἀλλὰ πόθον δίκαιον ἐπεδείκνυντο καὶ χάριν ἀληθινῆσ εὐνοίασ. (Plutarch, Timoleon, chapter 39 2:1)
  • τοῦτον τὸν οἰωνὸν οὔτε μαντείασ οὔτ’ ἐνδοιασμοῦ δεόμενον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῷ φαυλοτάτῳ ῥᾴδιον ὄντα συμβαλεῖν, ὅτι πεσεῖν αὐτῷ πᾶσα ἀνάγκη πτῶμα ἄσχημον, οὔτε φυλακῆσ οὔτε ἀφοσιώσεωσ ἄξιον ὑπέλαβεν, ἀλλ’ ἐπὶ τὸ κεχαρισμένον ἑαυτῷ μετήνεγκεν, ὡσ ὑπακηκοότων αὐτοῦ ταῖσ εὐχαῖσ τῶν θεῶν καὶ τὸ κακὸν ἐλάχιστον παρεσκευακότων γενέσθαι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 12, chapter 16 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. expiation

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

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