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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

  • τοῦτο δὲ τῇ ἐφορείᾳ μέγα λίαν τὸ δῶρον, καὶ τὸν τρόπον οὐ τοῦτον λέγομεν διδόναι δεῖν τὰσ εὐθύνασ. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 2 236:4)
  • ἔστι δὲ καὶ Ἑρμῆσ Ἀγοραῖοσ Διόνυσον φέρων παῖδα, καὶ τὰ ἀρχαῖα καλούμενα Ἐφορεῖα, ἐν δὲ αὐτοῖσ Ἐπιμενίδου τοῦ Κρητὸσ μνῆμα καὶ Ἀφαρέωσ τοῦ Περιήρουσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 11 18:1)

Related

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

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