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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

  • μετὰ τὴν Ὀλυνθίων ἅλωσιν ἄρχοντοσ Θεμιστοκλέουσ συνθῆκαι Φιλίππῳ πρὸσ Ἀθηναίουσ ἐγένοντο περὶ φιλίασ καὶ συμμαχίασ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ad Ammaeum, chapter 11 1:4)
  • ἐν ἐπιστολῆσ δὲ ἀρχῇ Κλέων ὁ Ἀθηναῖοσ δημαγωγὸσ ἀπὸ Σφακτηρίασ πρῶτον χαίρειν προὔθηκεν εὐαγγελιζόμενοσ τὴν νίκην τὴν ἐκεῖθεν καὶ τὴν τῶν Σπαρτιατῶν ἅλωσιν· (Lucian, Pro lapsu inter salutandum 6:2)
  • κεἰ μὲν πόλεωσ ἅλωσιν ἐξιώμενοσ, ἢ δῶμ’ ὀνήσων τἄλλα τ’ ἐκσῴζων τέκνα, ἔκτεινε πολλῶν μίαν ὕπερ, συγγνώστ’ ἂν ἦν· (Euripides, episode, anapests 1:17)
  • τοὺσ μὲν γὰρ τυχόντασ τῶν κρινομένων, ὅταν ἁλῶσιν, οὐδεὶσ οἶδεν οὐδὲ ζητεῖ πυθέσθαι τί πεπόνθασι· (Dinarchus, Speeches, 32:2)
  • ὅτι δὲ καὶ ἰχθῦσ ἤσθιον Σαρπηδὼν δῆλον ποιεῖ, ὁμοιῶν τὴν ἅλωσιν πανάγρου δικτύου θήρᾳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 461)

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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