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ἐξαπίναιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐξαπίναιος ἐξαπίναιᾱ ἐξαπίναιον

Structure: ἐξαπιναι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = e)caifni/dios, Xen.

Sense

  1. sudden, unexpected.

Declension

First/Second 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

  • Ῥήγνυται μὲν οὖν ἐξαπιναίωσ, ἢ πληγῇ, ἢ ἐντάσι ἄχθεοσ, ἢ ἀνωθήσει, ἢ ἀπὸ ὕψουσ ἅλματι, ἢ καὶ βοῇ, καὶ ὀργῇ μεγάλῃ, ἤ τεῳ ἄλλῃ ὁμοίῃ αἰτίῃ, εὖτε αὐτίκα ἐπὶ τῇ ἀρτηρίᾳ λάβρωσ τὸ αἷμα ἐκχέεται· ἢν δὲ ἀπὸ βρώσιοσ, χρὴ ἐπανερωτῆν, εἴ κοτε πρόσθεν ἔβηξε ὥνθρωποσ, ἢ δύσπνουσ γέγονε, ἢ ναυτίη, ἢ ἔμετοσ ἦγχε πάροσ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 47)
  • Ὅταν δὲ ταῦτα κατασκευάσῃσ οὕτωσ, ἀνέλκειν τὴν κλίμακα ἢ πρὸσ τύρσιν τινὰ ὓψηλὴν, ἢ πρὸσ ἀέτωμα οἴκου‧ τὸ δὲ χωρίον, ἵνα κατασείεισ, ἀντίτυπον ἔστω‧ τοὺσ δὲ ἀνατείνοντασ εὐπαιδεύτουσ χρὴ εἶναι, ὅκωσ ὁμαλῶσ καὶ ἰσοῤῬόπωσ καὶ ἐξαπιναίωσ ἀφήσουσι, καὶ μήτε ἡ κλίμαξ ἑτερόῤῬοποσ ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν ἀφίξεται, μήτε αὐτοὶ προπετέεσ ἔσονται. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 43.4)
  • ὅ τι δ’ ἂν ἐξαίφνησ σημήνῃ, θυμοειδῆ ἵππον ὥσπερ ἄνθρωπον ταράττει τὰ ἐξαπίναια καὶ ὁράματα καὶ ἀκούσματα καὶ παθήματα. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 9 5:1)
  • εἰδέναι δὲ χρὴ ὅτι καὶ ἐν ἵππῳ τὰ ἐξαπίναια τάραχον ἐξεργάζεται. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 9 5:2)
  • ἢν δὲ καὶ εἰσ τὸ θᾶττον ὁρμώμενον τοῦ καιροῦ ὑπολαμβάνειν βούλῃ τὸν θυμοειδῆ, οὐ δεῖ ἐξαπιναίωσ σπᾶν, ἀλλ’ ἠρεμαίωσ προσάγεσθαι τῷ χαλινῷ, πραύ̈νοντα, οὐ βιαζόμενον ἠρεμεῖν. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 9 6:1)
  • ὁ γὰρ θάνατοσ αὐτοῦ ἐξαπιναῖόσ τε καὶ οὐκ ἔχων φανερὰν πρόφασιν ἐγένετο. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 4 39:3)

Synonyms

  1. sudden

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

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