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ἐφορεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐφορεία

Structure: ἐφορει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: e)foreu/w

Sense

  1. the ephoralty

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

  • ἔτι τὸ δύο τὰσ μεγίστασ ἀρχὰσ τὴν μὲν αἱρεῖσθαι τὸν δῆμον, τῆσ δὲ μετέχειν τοὺσ μὲν γὰρ γέροντασ αἱροῦνται, τῆσ δ’ ἐφορείασ μετέχουσιν· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 4 143:1)
  • εἰκὸσ δὲ καὶ τὴν τῆσ ἐφορείασ δύναμιν τοὺσ αὐτοὺσ τούτουσ συγκατασκευάσαι, ἐπείπερ ἔγνωσαν τὸ πείθεσθαι μέγιστον ἀγαθὸν εἶναι καὶ ἐν πόλει καὶ ἐν στρατιᾷ καὶ ἐν οἴκῳ· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 8 4:1)

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

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