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ἀντίδοσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀντίδοσις

Structure: ἀντιδοσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)ntidi/dwmi

Sense

  1. a giving in return, exchange
  2. a form by which a citizen charged with a leitourgi/a or public charge might call upon any other citizen whom he thought richer than himself either to exchange properties, or to take the charge upon himself

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

  • Ὧδε μὲν ἐπὶ βραχὺ ἔληξαν αἱ στάσεισ ἐπὶ Σύλλα, καὶ κακῶν ἀντίδοσισ ἦν ὧν ὁ Σύλλασ εἰργάζετο· (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 1, PROOIMION 3:5)
  • ἡ δὲ ἀντίδοσισ ἥδε τήν τε ἡγεμονίαν, ὦ πολῖται, ἐσ εὐδαιμονίαν ἄκραν ὑπερήγαγε καὶ τοὺσ ἀξίουσ ἐτίμησε, καὶ οἱ τετιμημένοι χάριν εἶχον ὑμῖν. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 12 4:5)
  • οὕτω τόν τε ἄχρι τούτου χρόνον δωρεὰν ἔσχον παρὰ τῶν θεῶν καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο ἀνεβίων ὑπὸ τοῖσ θεοῖσ καί τισ οἱο͂ν ἀντίδοσισ αὕτη συνέβη. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 10:19)
  • καὶ μὴν εἰ ὥσπερ μισθὸσ ἀρετῆσ εὐφημίαι, οὕτω καὶ κατωρθωμένων ἐστὶν ἀντίδοσισ, ἀνάγκη θαυμάζεσθαι μὲν ἀρετὴν, τοὺσ δ’ ὁτιοῦν ἀγαθὸν εἰργασμένουσ τιμᾶσθαι, ἐάν τε ἀτέλειαν ταύτην φῇσ ἐάν θ’ ὁτιοῦν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 25:2)

Synonyms

  1. a giving in return

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

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