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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

  • οἱ δὲ τὴν μὲν ἐφορείαν εἶναι τυραννίδα, δημοκρατεῖσθαι δὲ κατά τε τὰ συσσίτια καὶ τὸν ἄλλον βίον τὸν καθ’ ἡμέραν· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 2 122:1)
  • ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ τὰ περὶ τὴν ἐφορείαν ἔχει φαύλωσ. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 2 225:1)
  • οἱ μὲν οὖν βασιλεῖσ διὰ τὴν αὑτῶν τιμὴν οὕτωσ ἔχουσιν, οἱ δὲ καλοὶ κἀγαθοὶ διὰ τὴν γερουσίαν ἆθλον γὰρ ἡ ἀρχὴ αὕτη τῆσ ἀρετῆσ ἐστιν, ὁ δὲ δῆμοσ διὰ τὴν ἐφορείαν καθίσταται γὰρ ἐξ ἁπάντων ‐ ἀλλ’ αἱρετὴν ἔδει τὴν ἀρχὴν εἶναι ταύτην ἐξ ἁπάντων μέν, μὴ τὸν τρόπον δὲ τοῦτον ὃν νῦν παιδαριώδησ γάρ ἐστι λίαν. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 2 228:2)
  • τινεσ ἐπιχειρῆσαι καταλῦσαι τὴν βασιλείαν καὶ Παυσανίαν τὸν βασιλέα τὴν ἐφορείαν, καὶ ἐν Ἐπιδάμνῳ δὲ μετέβαλεν ἡ πολιτεία κατὰ μόριον ἀντὶ γὰρ τῶν φυλάρχων βουλὴν ἐποίησαν, εἰσ δὲ τὴν ἡλιαίαν ἐπάναγκέσ ἐστιν ἔτι τῶν ἐν τῷ πολιτεύματι βαδίζειν τὰσ ἀρχάσ, ὅταν ἐπιψηφίζηται ἀρχή τισ, ὀλιγαρχικὸν δὲ καὶ ὁ ἄρχων ὁ εἷσ ἦν ἐν τῇ πολιτείᾳ ταύτῃ. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 5 16:1)

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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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