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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

  • Χίων ποτὲ κατ’ ἐπιδημίαν ἀπὸ δείπνου ἐμεσάντων ἐν τῷ ἐφορείῳ καὶ χεσάντων ἐπὶ τῶν δίφρων, ἔνθα οἱ ἔφοροι ἐκάθηντο, τὸ μὲν πρῶτον ἰσχυρῶσ ἀνεζήτουν τοὺσ ποιήσαντασ μὴ πολῖται τυγχάνωσιν· (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 131)
  • ἄξιόν γε μὴν καὶ ἐντεῦθεν ὑπερβαλλόντωσ ἄγασθαι αὐτοῦ, ὅστισ ἄρχων μὲν παμπόλλων ἐν τῇ ἠπείρῳ πόλεων, ἄρχων δὲ καὶ νήσων, ἐπεὶ καὶ τὸ ναυτικὸν προσῆψεν αὐτῷ ἡ πόλισ, αὐξανόμενοσ δὲ καὶ εὐκλείᾳ καὶ δυνάμει, παρὸν δ’ αὐτῷ πολλοῖσ καὶ ἀγαθοῖσ χρῆσθαι ὅ τι ἐβούλετο, πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ τὸ μέγιστον, ἐπινοῶν καὶ ἐλπίζων καταλύσειν τὴν ἐπὶ τὴν Ἑλλάδα στρατεύσασαν πρότερον ἀρχήν, ὅμωσ ὑπ’ οὐδενὸσ τούτων ἐκρατήθη, ἀλλ’ ἐπειδὴ ἦλθεν αὐτῷ ἀπὸ τῶν οἴκοι τελῶν βοηθεῖν τῇ πατρίδι, ἐπείθετο τῇ πόλει οὐδὲν διαφερόντωσ ἢ εἰ ἐν τῷ ἐφορείῳ ἔτυχεν ἑστηκὼσ μόνοσ παρὰ τοὺσ πέντε, μάλα ἔνδηλον ποιῶν ὡσ οὔτε ἂν πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν δέξαιτο ἀντὶ τῆσ πατρίδοσ οὔτε τοὺσ ἐπικτήτουσ ἀντὶ τῶν ἀρχαίων φίλων οὔτε αἰσχρὰ καὶ ἀκίνδυνα κέρδη μᾶλλον ἢ μετὰ κινδύνων τὰ καλὰ καὶ δίκαια. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 1 38:1)
  • 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)

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

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