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ἐπακτός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπακτός ἐπακτόν

Structure: ἐπακτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)pa/gw

Sense

  1. brought in, imported
  2. alien, false
  3. brought upon oneself

Examples

  • σὲ δ’, ὦ τέκνον, καὶ γάμοισι δὴ κλύω ζυγέντα παιδοποιὸν ἁδονὰν ξένοισιν ἐν δόμοισ ἔχειν ξένον τε κῆδοσ ἀμφέπειν, ἄλαστα ματρὶ τᾷδε Λα‐ ίῳ τε τῷ παλαιγενεῖ, γάμων ἐπακτὸν ἄταν. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric 2:3)
  • Χάρησ μὲν γὰρ ὁ Ἀθηναῖοσ ἔν τινι μάχῃ πρὸσ τοὺσ βασιλέωσ στρατηγοὺσ εὐτυχήσασ ἔγραψε τῷ δήμῳ τῶν Ἀθηναίων ὡσ νενικήκοι τῆσ ἐν Μαραθῶνι μάχησ ἀδελφήν ταύτην δὲ τὴν πρᾶξιν οὐκ ἂν ἁμάρτοι τισ ἀδελφήν προσειπὼν τῆσ Πελοπίδου τοῦ Θηβαίου καὶ Θρασυβούλου τοῦ Ἀθηναίου τυραννοκτονίασ, πλὴν ὅτι τῷ μὴ πρὸσ Ἕλληνασ, ἀλλὰ ἐπακτὸν ἀρχὴν γεγονέναι καὶ ἀλλόφυλον αὕτη διήνεγκεν. (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 16 3:1)
  • "ἦ τοῖον ἔργον καὶ θεοῖσι προσφιλέσ, καλόν τ’ ἀκοῦσαι καὶ λέγειν μεθυστέροισ, πόλιν πατρῴαν καὶ θεοὺσ τοὺσ ἐγγενεῖσ πορθεῖν, στράτευμ’ ἐπακτὸν ἐμβεβληκότα; (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 3 1:6)
  • ἄγοσ δὲ καὶ θανὼν κεκτήσεται θεῶν πατρῴων, οὓσ ἀτιμάσασ ὅδε στράτευμ’ ἐπακτὸν ἐμβαλὼν ᾕρει πόλιν. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode7)
  • αὐτὸσ δὲ μητρὸσ ἐξέφυσ Κρήσσησ, ἐφ’ ᾗ λαβὼν ἐπακτὸν ἄνδρ’ ὁ φιτύσασ πατὴρ ἐφῆκεν ἐλλοῖσ ἰχθύσιν διαφθοράν. (Sophocles, Ajax, episode 2:4)

Synonyms

  1. brought in

  2. brought upon oneself

Related

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

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