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ἀπαγόρευσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπαγόρευσις

Structure: ἀπαγορευσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from a)pagoreu/w

Sense

  1. failure of strength, exhaustion

Examples

  • συνίσταται δὲ τὸ μὲν δίκαιον νόμῳ, φύσει, ἔθει, τὸ δὲ νόμῳ δίκαιον θεωρεῖται ἐν προστάξει καὶ ἐν ἀπαγορεύσει. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 10:2)
  • οὐδὲν οὖν ἀπαγορεύσει τοῖσ φαύλοισ ὁ νόμοσ, εἴ γε μὴ προστάξει τι. (Plutarch, De Stoicorum repugnantiis, section 11 5:1)
  • τοσούτοισ δὲ οὖσιν οὐκ ἀπαγορεύσει τὸ θεῖον ἀφθονίαν μὲν παντοίων ἀγαθῶν ἐν εἰρήνῃ χορηγοῦν, νίκην δὲ καὶ κράτοσ ἐν πολέμῳ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 4 147:3)

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

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