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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

  • εἰ γὰρ μὴ ὁ γενναιότατοσ οὗτοσ, ὁ τὸ ξύλον, συνήργησέ μοι καὶ συλλαβόντεσ αὐτὸν ἐδήσαμεν, κἂν ᾤχετο ἡμᾶσ ἀποφυγών ἀφ’ οὗ γάρ μοι παρέδωκεν αὐτὸν ἡ Ἄτροποσ, παρ’ ὅλην τὴν ὁδὸν ἀντέτεινε καὶ ἀντέσπα, καὶ τὼ πόδε ἀντερείδων πρὸσ τὸ ἔδαφοσ οὐ παντελῶσ εὐάγωγοσ ἦν· (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 4:2)
  • μόλισ δὲ γραῖαν ἀποφυγὼν σαπρὰν ἀπωλόμην ὅμωσ. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Lyric-Scene, lyric5)
  • καίτοι τότε, ὅτ’ εἶχον οὐδέν, ὁ μὲν ἂν ἥκων ἔμποροσ ἔθυσεν ἱερεῖόν τι σωθείσ, ὁ δέ τισ ἂν δίκην ἀποφυγών, ὁ δ’ ἂν ἐκαλλιερεῖτό τισ κἀμέ γ’ ἐκάλει τὸν ἱερέα· (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode9)
  • στεῖχ’, ὡσ ἀθορύβωσ οὑπιὼν ἡμῖν λόγοσ πρὸσ τόνδ’ ἵκηται, γῆρασ ἀποφυγὼν τὸ σόν. (Euripides, episode, iambic 15:6)
  • "ἐλεύθεροσ γέγονα, λυττῶντασ καὶ ἀγρίουσ δεσπότασ διὰ τὸ γῆρασ ἀποφυγών. (Plutarch, De cupiditate divitiarum, section 5 1:1)

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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