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ἐφορεῖον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐφορεῖον ἐφορεῖου

Structure: ἐφορει (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: e)/foros

Sense

  1. the court of the ephors

Declension

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

  • 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)
  • τοῦτο δὲ τῇ ἐφορείᾳ μέγα λίαν τὸ δῶρον, καὶ τὸν τρόπον οὐ τοῦτον λέγομεν διδόναι δεῖν τὰσ εὐθύνασ. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 2 236:4)

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

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