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ἐξαπάτη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐξαπάτη

Structure: ἐξαπατ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. gross deceit

Declension

First 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

  • μᾶλλον δὲ μὴ καὶ ἄλλο τι τοιοῦτοσ φανείην ἐξαπατῶν ἴσωσ τοὺσ ἀκούοντασ καὶ ὀστᾶ παραθεὶσ αὐτοῖσ κεκαλυμμένα τῇ πιμελῇ, γέλωτα κωμικὸν ὑπὸ σεμνότητι φιλοσόφῳ· (Lucian, Prometheus es in verbis 19:2)
  • ἐγὼ δὲ τουτονὶ τῶν κῳδίων, ἁλάμβαν’ αὐτὸσ ἐξαπατῶν, ἐκβολβιῶ. (Aristophanes, Peace, Lyric-Scene, iambics11)
  • ὅπου γ’ οὕτω καλῶσ καὶ δικαίωσ τῆσ ἀποφάσεωσ τῆσ κατὰ τούτου καὶ τῶν ἄλλων νυνὶ γεγενημένησ, καὶ τῆσ ἐξ Ἀρείου πάγου βουλῆσ οὔτε τὴν Δημοσθένουσ οὔτε τὴν Δημάδου δύναμιν ὑποστειλαμένησ, ἀλλὰ τὸ δίκαιον αὐτὸ καὶ τἀληθὲσ προὐργιαίτερον πεποιημένησ, οὐδὲν ἧττον περιέρχεται Δημοσθένησ περί τε τῆσ βουλῆσ βλασφημῶν καὶ περὶ ἑαυτοῦ λέγων οἷσπερ ἴσωσ καὶ πρὸσ ὑμᾶσ αὐτίκα χρήσεται λόγοισ ἐξαπατῶν ὑμᾶσ, ὡσ "ἐγὼ Θηβαίουσ ὑμῖν ἐποίησα συμμάχουσ. (Dinarchus, Speeches, 14:2)
  • τάχα δ’ ἂν διὰ τὸν χθιζινὸν ἄνθρωπον, ὃσ ἡμᾶσ διεδύετ’ ἐξαπατῶν καὶ λέγων ὡσ φιλαθήναιοσ ἦν καὶ τἀν Σάμῳ πρῶτοσ κατείποι, διὰ τοῦτ’ ὀδυνηθεὶσ εἶτ’ ἴσωσ κεῖται πυρέττων. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Parodos, antistrophe 11)
  • κοὐκ ἐγχανεῖταί σ’ ἐξαπατῶν Ὑπέρβολοσ. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Episode 2:64)
  • ταῦθ’ οὗτοσ ἀντεγράψατο, ἃ χρὴ μνημονεύειν ὑμᾶσ, καὶ μὴ τοὺσ ἐπ’ ἐξαπάτῃ νῦν λόγουσ ὑπὸ τούτου ῥηθησομένουσ πιστοτέρουσ ποιεῖσθαι τῶν νόμων καὶ τῶν ὑπὸ τούτου γραφέντων εἰσ τὴν ἀντιγραφήν. (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 72:1)
  • ἐν γὰρ τραγῳδοποϊᾴ καὶ ζωγραφίᾳ ὅστισ <κα> πλεῖστα ἐξαπατῇ ὅμοια τοῖσ ἀληθινοῖσ ποιέων, οὗτοσ ἄριστοσ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 7)
  • Τατίῳ δὲ θυμόν τε εἰσελθεῖν ἐπὶ τῇ ἐξαπάτῃ καὶ λογισμὸν τοῦ μὴ παραβῆναι τὰσ ὁμολογίασ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 40 1:2)

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

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