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ἀποσιώπησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀποσιώπησις

Structure: ἀποσιωπησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from a)posiwpa/w

Sense

  1. a becoming silent
  2. a rhetorical figure, when the sentence is broken off

Examples

  • καὶ αἱ ἀποσιωπήσεισ δὲ τὸ αὐτό σοι δυνήσονται, οἱο͂ν τί ἄν σέ τισ εἰπὼν ὀρθῶσ προσείποι; (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 13:2)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ τήν τε νύκτα κακῶσ κλαίων διήνεγκε καὶ τήν ἐπιοῦσαν ἡμέραν ἤδη τῷ βοᾶν καὶ θρηνεῖν ἀπειρηκὼσ ἄναυδοσ ἔκειτο, βαρεῖσ ἀναφέρων στεναγμούσ, δείσαντεσ οἱ φίλοι τήν ἀποσιώπησιν εἰσῆλθον βίᾳ. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 52 1:1)

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

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