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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

  • ία ἢ δήμευσισ χρημάτων, ἢ τιμῆσαι δεῖ ὅ τι χρὴ παθεῖν ἢ ἀποτεῖσαι. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 67 5:52)
  • τιμωρίαι δὲ προσέκειντο τοῖσ καταλύουσιν ἢ παραβαίνουσι τὸν νόμον, ἐὰν ἁλῶσι, θάνατοσ καὶ δήμευσισ τῆσ οὐσίασ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 11, chapter 45 1:2)
  • ἐξέλασίσ τε ἑτέρων ἦν καὶ δήμευσισ τῶν ἑτέροισ ὄντων. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 1, chapter 11 1:9)
  • Πολλὴ δὲ καὶ τῶν Ἰταλιωτῶν ἀναίρεσίσ τε καὶ ἐξέλασισ καὶ δήμευσισ ἦν, ὅσοι τι Κάρβωνοσ ἢ Νωρβανοῦ ἢ Μαρίου ἢ τῶν ὑπ’ ἐκείνοισ στρατηγούντων ὑπήκουσαν. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 1, chapter 11 2:1)
  • καὶ πάντων φυγὴ κατέγνωστο, Γαβινίου δὲ καὶ δήμευσισ ἦν ἐπὶ τῇ φυγῇ. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 4 1:6)

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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