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ἅλωσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἅλωσις

Structure: ἁλωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a taking, capture, conquest, destruction, conquest, means of conquest, power to escape
  2. conviction

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

  • ἔνδοθεν δὲ πολλαὶ προδοσίαι συναγωνίζονται τὰσ χεῖρασ ὀρέγουσαι καὶ τὰσ πύλασ ἀναπετῶσαι καὶ πάντα τρόπον τῇ ἁλώσει τοῦ ἀκούοντοσ συμπροθυμούμεναι. (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 21:2)
  • εἰ δὲ παραληρῶν ἁλώσει κἀκβαλεῖσ τι μαλθακόν, αὖθισ αἴρεσθαί σ’ ἀνάγκη ’σται πάλιν τὰ στρώματα. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene, antistrophe 15)
  • ναὶ Κύπριν, ἁλώσει, ὦ δύσερωσ, ἰξῷ πυκνὰ προσιπταμένη· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 1322)
  • εἰ μὲν οὖν, ἔφασαν, ἔμειναν ἐν ᾧ κατέσκηψε χωρίῳ τὸ βέλοσ οἱ κατέχοντεσ αὐτό, καὶ μὴ μετηνέγκαντο τὰ σημεῖα ὡσ τοὺσ ἑτέρουσ, μιᾶσ τε παρεμβολῆσ ἁλώσει καὶ ἑνὸσ ὀλέθρῳ στρατοῦ τὸ νεμεσῶν αὐτοῖσ δαιμόνιον ἀπεπλήρωσεν ἂν τὸν χόλον· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 6 8:1)
  • διόπερ ἀμφοτέροισ ἐμπεσούσησ σπουδῆσ ἡμιλλῶντο πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ ταῖσ εἰρεσίαισ, οἱ μὲν Φοίνικεσ νομίζοντεσ ἅμα τῇ τῶν νεῶν ἁλώσει Συρακούσσασ μὲν ὑποχειρίουσ ἕξειν, τὴν δὲ πατρίδα μεγάλων ἐλευθερώσειν κινδύνων· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter 6 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. conviction

Related

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

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