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ἔκφρασις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔκφρασις ἔκφρασεως

Structure: ἐκφρασι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

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Declension

Third 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

  • ὑπὸ γὰρ ἀσθενείασ τῆσ ἐν τοῖσ χρησίμοισ ἢ ἀγνοίασ τῶν λεκτέων ἐπὶ τὰσ τοιαύτασ τῶν χωρίων καὶ ἄντρων ἐκφράσεισ τρέπονται, καὶ ὁπόταν ἐσ πολλὰ καὶ μεγάλα πράγματα ἐμπέσωσιν, ἐοίκασιν οἰκέτῃ νεοπλούτῳ, ἄρτι κληρονομήσαντι τοῦ δεσπότου, ὃσ οὔτε τὴν ἐσθῆτα οἶδεν ὡσ χρὴ περιβαλέσθαι οὔτε δειπνῆσαι κατὰ νόμον, ἀλλ̓ ἐμπηδήσασ, πολλάκισ ὀρνίθων καὶ συείων καὶ λαγῴων προκειμένων, ὑπερεμπίπλαται ἔτνουσ τινὸσ ἢ ταρίχουσ, ἔστ̓ ἂν διαρραγῇ ἐσθίων. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 201)
  • ἔκφρασισ τῶν ἀγαλμάτων τῶν εἰσ τὸ δημόσιον γυμνάσιον τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ζευξίππου. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 2, chapter 11)

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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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