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ἔφεξις

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔφεξις ἔφεξεως

Structure: ἐφεξι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)pe/xw

Sense

an excuse, pretext

Declension

Third declension

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἔφεξις	ἐφέξει	ἐφέξεις
Genitive	ἐφέξεως	ἐφέξοιν	ἐφέξεων
Dative	ἐφέξει	ἐφέξοιν	ἐφέξεσιν*
Accusative	έ̓φεξιν	ἐφέξει	ἐφέξεις
Vocative	έ̓φεξι	ἐφέξει	ἐφέξεις

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

στηριχθήσεται ἐπ̓ αὐτὴν καὶ οὐ μὴ κλιθῇ, καὶ ἐπ̓ αὐτῆσ ἐφέξει καὶ οὐ μὴ καταισχυνθῇ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 15:4)
εἰ δὲ καὶ τῷ τόπῳ διπλασιάσαι ἐθέλοιμεν τὸ μῆκοσ, ὡσ ἀντὶ σταδίων πέντε ἐσ δέκα ἐκτεῖναι τὴν τάξιν, τοὺσ ἐκ τοῦ βάθουσ παρεμβληθέντασ ἐσ τὸ κατὰ μῆκοσ μέσον τῶν ὁπλιτῶν διάστημα ἐπὶ τὰ δεξιὰ κελεύσομεν ἐξελίσσεσθαι, τοὺσ δὲ λοιποὺσ καὶ ἡμίσεασ αὐτῶν ἐπὶ τὰ εὐώνυμα, ἀπὸ τῶν πρὸσ τοῖσ κέρασι δευτέρων λόχων ἀρχόμενοι, καὶ οὕτω διπλάσιον ἐφέξει χῶρον ἡ πᾶσα τάξισ. (Arrian, chapter 25 6:1)
περιέχεσθαι, δεινὸν ἡγούμενοσ, εἰ τῶν φυσικῶν σωμάτων οὐ μίαν ἅπαντα τὰ στερρὰ καὶ μίαν τὰ μανὰ χώραν ἐφέξει. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 27 5:1)
ὁ μὲν φίλοσ ἐφέξει, φυλάττεσθαι καὶ προσέχειν παραινῶν, ὁ δὲ κόλαξ εἰσ τὸ βαλανεῖον ἕλκει, καὶ κελεύει νεαρόν τι παρατιθέναι καὶ μὴ κακοῦν ἀνατάσει τὸ σῶμα. (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 20 9:1)
‐ Ἐκεῖνο μόνον ἔχω σοι εἰπεῖν, ὅτι ὁ ἀγνοῶν, τίσ ἐστι καὶ ἐπὶ τί γέγονεν καὶ ἐν τίνι τούτῳ τῷ κόσμῳ καὶ μετὰ τίνων κοινωνῶν καὶ τίνα τὰ ἀγαθά ἐστι καὶ τὰ κακὰ καὶ τὰ καλὰ καὶ τὰ αἰσχρά, καὶ μήτε λόγῳ παρακολουθῶν μήτ’ ἀποδείξει, μήτε τί ἐστιν ἀληθὲσ ἢ τί ψεῦδοσ, μήτε διακρῖναι ταῦτα δυνάμενοσ οὔτ’ ὀρέξεται κατὰ φύσιν οὔτ’ ἐκκλινεῖ οὔθ’ ὁρμήσει οὔτ’ ἐπιβαλεῖται, οὐ συγκαταθήσεται, οὐκ ἀνανεύσει, οὐκ ἐφέξει, τὸ σύνολον. (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 19:1)

Synonyms

an excuse
- ὑπόθεσις (occasion, excuse, pretext)
- πρόφασις (a mere pretext, a pretence, excuse)
- σκῆψις (a pretext, plea, excuse)

Similar forms

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

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ἔφεξις

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Sense

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an excuse

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