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ἔμπυος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔμπυος ἔμπυον

Structure: ἐμπυ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)n, pu/on

Sense

  1. suppurating

Declension

First/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

  • πρὸσ οὓσ ἔστιν εἰπεῖν τὸ ὑπὸ Φιλοτίμου πρὸσ τὸν ἔμπυον καὶ φθισιῶντα ῥηθέν. (Plutarch, De Recta Ratione Audiendi, chapter, section 10 4:1)
  • πρὸσ τοὺσ μὲν οὖν σε τήνδε τ’ ἔμπυον βάσιν παύσοντασ ἄλγουσ κἀποσώσοντασ νόσου. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode 4:19)
  • ξυνεχὲσ δὲ τουτέοισι τὸ πλευρὸν καταιον εῖν , ἠδὲ ἐπιπλάττε ιν πρὸ τῆσ προσάρσιοσ · πρὸσ τοῖσι ξυνήθεσι πλάσμασι , μελίλωτον ἑψηθὲν ξὺν μελικρήτῳ, ξυμμίσγοντα μήκωνοσ τῆσ σαρκὸσ ἐνηψημένησ , καὶ μάννησ ἄλητον ἐμπάσσειν· ἢν δὲ ὑγροτέρη ᾖ ἀναγωγὴ καὶ πολλὴ, αἴρησ ἄλητον ἢ ἐρυσίμου ξυμμίσγειν καὶ νίτρον ἐμπάσσειν· ἢν δὲ μῆκοσ ἤδη τῆσ νούσου γίγνηται, καὶ τῆσ ὀδύνησ ἐγκεομένησ , καὶ ὑγρῆσ καθάρσιοσ γιγνομένησ , ἔμπυον μὲν ἐλπὶσ τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἔσεσθαι · σίνηπι δὲ ξυμμίσγειν καὶ κάγχρυ τοῖσι ἐπιπλάσμασι. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 380)
  • Χρὴ δὲ καὶ τὴν ἐπικοίμησιν φυλάσσεσθαι‧ τὸ δὲ σῶμα ἰσχναίνειν, καὶ μᾶλλον, ᾧ ἂν κίνδυνοσ ἐῄ ἔμπυον τὸ οὖσ γενέσθαι‧ ἄμεινον δὲ καὶ μαλθάξαι τὴν κοιλίην‧ ἢν δὲ καὶ εὐήμετοσ ἐῄ, ἐμέειν ἀπὸ συρμαϊσμοῦ. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 40.4)
  • Εἰ δὲ ὑπερβάλλοι ἑξήκοντα ἡμέρασ ὅ τε πυρετὸσ ἔχων καὶ τὸ οἴδημα μὴ καθιστάμενον, ἔμπυον ἔσεσθαι σημαίνει‧ καὶ τοῦτο, καὶ τὸ ἐν τῇ ἄλλῃ κοιλίῃ κατὰ τωὐτό. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., PROGNWSTIKON, 7.9)

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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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