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δήμευσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: δήμευσις

Structure: δημευσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. confiscation of one's property

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

  • περὶ δὲ δημεύσεωσ χρημάτων ἐνίστατο Καῖσαρ, οὐκ ἀξιῶν τὰ φιλάνθρωπα τῆσ ἑαυτοῦ γνώμησ ἐκβαλόντασ ἑνὶ χρήσασθαι τῷ σκυθρωποτάτῳ, βιαζομένων δὲ πολλῶν ἐπεκαλεῖτο τοὺσ δημάρχουσ, οἱ δ’ οὐχ ὑπήκουον, ἀλλὰ Κικέρων αὐτὸσ ἐνδοὺσ ἀνῆκε τὴν περὶ δημεύσεωσ γνώμην. (Plutarch, Cicero, chapter 21 4:1)
  • ἐψηφίσθη δὲ αὐτῷ πάντων ἄδεια τῶν γεγονότων, πρὸσ δὲ τὸ μέλλον ἐξουσία θανάτου, δημεύσεωσ, κληρουχιῶν, κτίσεωσ, πορθήσεωσ, ἀφελέσθαι βασιλείαν, καὶ ᾧ βούλοιτο χαρίσασθαι. (Plutarch, Sulla, chapter 33 1:3)
  • καὶ διαλύσεωσ, καὶ περὶ νόμων, καὶ περὶ θανάτου καὶ φυγῆσ καὶ δημεύσεωσ, καὶ περὶ ἀρχῶν αἱρέσεωσ καὶ τῶν εὐθυνῶν. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 4 218:1)
  • ἀπό τε γὰρ εἰσφορᾶσ καὶ δημεύσεωσ ἀναγκαῖον γίνεσθαι καὶ δικαστηρίων φαύλων, ἃ πολλὰσ ἤδη δημοκρατίασ ἀνέτρεψεν, ὅπου μὲν οὖν πρόσοδοι μὴ τυγχάνουσιν οὖσαι, δεῖ ποιεῖν ὀλίγασ ἐκκλησίασ, καὶ δικαστήρια πολλῶν μὲν ὀλίγασ δ’ ἡμέρασ τοῦτο γὰρ φέρει μὲν καὶ πρὸσ τὸ μὴ φοβεῖσθαι τοὺσ πλουσίουσ τὰσ δαπάνασ κἂν οἱ μὲν εὔποροι μὴ λαμβάνωσι δικαστικόν, οἱ δ’ ἄποροι, φέρει δὲ καὶ πρὸσ τὸ κρίνεσθαι τὰσ δίκασ πολὺ βέλτιον· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 6 81:1)

Synonyms

  1. confiscation of one's property

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

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