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ἐκστρατεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐκστρατεία

Structure: ἐκστρατει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from e)kstrateu/w

Sense

  1. a going out on service

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

  • τοὺσ φόβουσ καὶ τὰ δείματα καὶ ὑποψίασ καὶ μῖσοσ τὸ παρὰ τῶν συνόντων καὶ ἐπιβουλάσ, καὶ διὰ ταῦτα ὕπνον τε ὀλίγον, ἐπιπόλαιον κἀκεῖνον, καὶ ταραχῆσ μεστὰ ὀνείρατα καὶ ἐννοίασ πολυπλόκουσ καὶ ἐλπίδασ ἀεὶ πονηράσ, ἢ τὴν ἀσχολίαν καὶ χρηματισμοὺσ καὶ δίκασ καὶ ἐκστρατείασ καὶ προστάγματα καὶ συνθήματα καὶ λογισμούσ; (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 25:5)
  • καὶ εἴ πού τινασ ἐκστρατείασ ἐποιοῦντο ἐπ’ ἄλλουσ οἱ ἕτεροι, καὶ τοῖσ ἑτέροισ ἔρισ ἦν μὴ ἀπολείπεσθαι τῆσ εἰσ τοὺσ αὐτοὺσ τόπουσ ἐξόδου· (Strabo, Geography, book 5, chapter 1 20:6)
  • Διονύσου δ’ ἀπογόνουσ τοὺσ Συδράκασ ἀπὸ τῆσ ἀμπέλου τῆσ παρ’ αὐτοῖσ καὶ τῶν πολυτελῶν ἐξόδων, βακχικῶσ τάσ τε ἐκστρατείασ ποιουμένων τῶν βασιλέων καὶ τὰσ ἄλλασ ἐξόδουσ μετὰ τυμπανισμοῦ καὶ εὐανθοῦσ στολῆσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 16:3)

Synonyms

  1. a going out on service

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

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