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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

  • σφαγὰσ δὲ ἢ ἐλάσεισ ἢ δημεύσεισ οὐδὲ κατὰ τῶν ἐπιβεβουλευκότων εἰργαζόμην, καίτοι ἀναγκαῖον ὂν τὰ τοιαῦτα τολμᾶν ἐν ἀρχῇ τῆσ δυναστείασ μάλιστα. (Lucian, Phalaris, book 1 3:2)
  • 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)
  • ία ἢ δήμευσισ χρημάτων, ἢ τιμῆσαι δεῖ ὅ τι χρὴ παθεῖν ἢ ἀποτεῖσαι. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 67 5:52)
  • 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)
  • 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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