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δόκωσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: δόκωσις δοκώσεως

Structure: δοκωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. furnishing with rafters, roofing

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

  • τετραπλεύρῳ δέ, ἐπειδὰν πάντοθεν οἱ πολέμιοι ἐπιστήσεσθαι πιθανοὶ δοκῶσι. (Arrian, chapter 28 7:3)
  • ἐδαφνηφόρει δὲ καὶ σύμπασ ὁ στρατόσ, τῷ μὲν ἁρ́ματι τοῦ στρατηγοῦ κατὰ λόχουσ καὶ τάξεισ ἑπόμενοσ, ᾄδων δὲ τὰ μὲν ᾠδάσ τινασ πατρίουσ ἀναμεμιγμένασ γέλωτι, τὰ δὲ παιᾶνασ ἐπινικίουσ καὶ τῶν διαπεπραγμένων ἐπαίνουσ εἰσ τὸν Αἰμίλιον περίβλεπτον ὄντα καὶ ζηλωτὸν ὑπὸ πάντων, οὐδενὶ δὲ τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἐπίφθονον πλὴν εἴ τι δαιμόνιον ἄρα τῶν μεγάλων καὶ ὑπερόγκων εἴληχεν εὐτυχιῶν ἀπαρύτειν καὶ μιγνύναι τὸν ἀνθρώπινον βίον, ὅπωσ μηδενὶ κακῶν ἄκρατοσ εἰή καὶ καθαρόσ, ἀλλὰ καθ’ Ὅμηρον ἄριστα δοκῶσι πράττειν οἷσ αἱ τύχαι τροπὴν ἐπ’ ἀμφότερα τῶν πραγμάτων ἔχουσιν. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 34 4:1)
  • οἱ γὰρ εὔποροι δεδιότεσ μὴ δοκῶσι τὰσ λειτουργίασ καὶ τριηραρχίασ ἀποδιδράσκειν, παρὰ γνώμην ἡσύχαζον· (Plutarch, , chapter 12 2:3)
  • αἱ δ’ ἐφ’ ἱεροῖσ καὶ θυηπολίαισ, καὶ ὅταν ἔγγιστα τοῦ θείου τῇ ἐπινοίᾳ ψαύειν δοκῶσι μετὰ τιμῆσ καὶ σεβασμοῦ, πολὺ διαφέρουσαν ἡδονὴν καὶ χάριν ἔχουσι. (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 21 11:1)
  • παρὰ πάντα ταῦτα τοὺσ ἐπὶ τοῖσ πράγμασι δωροδοκοῦντασ κολάζειν καὶ μισεῖν πανταχοῦ, ἵν’ οἱ μέτριοι καὶ δικαίουσ αὑτοὺσ παρέχοντεσ εὖ βεβουλεῦσθαι δοκῶσι καὶ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ καὶ ἑαυτοῖσ. (Demosthenes, Speeches, 90:5)

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

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