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ἀποφυγή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀποφυγή

Structure: ἀποφυγ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. an escape or place of refuge, escape from

Declension

First 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

  • ^ οὐ γὰρ τοῖσ τυχοῦσι θηρίοισ προσπολεμῆσαι δεήσει με, ἀλλ’ ἀλαζόσιν ἀνθρώποισ καὶ δυσελέγκτοισ, ἀεί τινασ ἀποφυγὰσ εὑρισκομένοισ, ὥστε ἀναγκαῖοσ ὁ Ἔλεγχοσ. (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 17:9)
  • λυπῶν ταύτασ εἶναι πάσασ ἀποφυγάσ, ἃσ νῦν οἱ περὶ Φίληβον ἡδονὰσ ἐπονομάζουσιν. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 202:1)
  • τὴν δ’ Ἀντιοχέων τῶν ἐν Συρίᾳ πλατεῖαν οὐ φευκτὴν οὖσαν ὑπὸ βορβόρου κατέστρωσέν τε σταδίων εἴκοσι τὸ μῆκοσ οὖσαν ξεστῇ μαρμάρῳ καὶ πρὸσ τὰσ τῶν ὑετῶν ἀποφυγὰσ ἐκόσμησεν ἰσομήκει στοᾷ. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 606:3)

Synonyms

  1. an escape or place of refuge

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

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