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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

  • ὀξὺν ἡ κακία διὰ τῆσ ἐξουσίασ δρόμον ἔχουσα πᾶν πάθοσ ἐξωθεῖ, ποιοῦσα τὴν ὀργὴν φόνον τὸν ἔρωτα μοιχείαν τὴν πλεονεξίαν δήμευσιν. (Plutarch, Ad principem ineruditum, chapter, section 6 3:2)
  • δήμῳ δ’ ὕβριν μὲν οὐδεμίαν εἰσ πολίτασ οὐδὲ δήμευσιν ἀλλοτρίων οὐδὲ κοινῶν διανέμησιν ὁ πολιτικὸσ ἐφήσει κατὰ δύναμιν, ἀλλὰ πείθων καὶ διδάσκων καὶ δεδιττόμενοσ διαμαχεῖται ταῖσ τοιαύταισ ἐπιθυμίαισ, οἱάσ οἱ περὶ Κλέωνα βόσκοντεσ καὶ αὔξοντεσ πολύν, ὥσ φησιν ὁ Πλάτων, κηφῆνα τῇ πόλει κεκεντρωμένον ἐνεποίησαν. (Plutarch, Praecepta gerendae reipublicae, chapter, section 24 8:2)
  • δὲ δήμευσιν, ὡσ παρὰ τοὺσ ὁρ́κουσ καὶ τὰσ συνθήκασ, διεξιόντοσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 11, chapter 49 5:1)

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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