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ἔμπολις

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔμπολις ἔμπολεως

Structure: ἐμπολι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)n

Sense

  1. in the city or state, fellow-citizen

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἔμπολις ἐμπόλει ἐμπόλεις
Genitive ἐμπόλεως ἐμπόλοιν ἐμπόλεων
Dative ἐμπόλει ἐμπόλοιν ἐμπόλεσιν*
Accusative έ̓μπολιν ἐμπόλει ἐμπόλεις
Vocative έ̓μπολι ἐμπόλει ἐμπόλεις

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

  • ἁγὼ σεβισθεὶσ οὔποτ’ ἐκβαλῶ χάριν τὴν τοῦδε, χώρᾳ δ’ ἔμπολιν κατοικιῶ. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 2:11)
  • φασίν τιν’ ἡμῖν ἄνδρα, σοὶ μὲν ἔμπολιν οὐκ ὄντα, συγγενῆ δέ, προσπεσόντα πωσ βωμῷ καθῆσθαι τῷ Ποσειδῶνοσ, παρ’ ᾧ θύων ἔκυρον, ἡνίχ’ ὡρμώμην ἐγώ. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 1:12)

Synonyms

  1. in the city or state

Similar forms

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

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