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ἔπαθλον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔπαθλον ἔπαθλου

Structure: ἐπαθλ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. the prize of a contest

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἔπαθλον ἐπάθλω έ̓παθλα
Genitive ἐπάθλου ἐπάθλοιν ἐπάθλων
Dative ἐπάθλῳ ἐπάθλοιν ἐπάθλοις
Accusative ἔπαθλον ἐπάθλω έ̓παθλα
Vocative έ̓παθλον ἐπάθλω έ̓παθλα

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

  • ὅθεν τύραννοσ τῆσδε γῆσ καθίσταται καὶ σκῆπτρ’ ἔπαθλα τῆσδε λαμβάνει χθονόσ. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 3:11)
  • καὶ πρῶτον μὲν ἐπετίμησεν εἰ νενικηκὼσ αὐτὸσ τὰ ἔπαθλα τοῦ πολέμου Φίλιππον ἐᾷ φέρεσθαι, καὶ τριβόμενοσ περὶ μιᾷ πόλει κάθηται δι’ ὀργήν, ἔθνη δὲ οὐκ ὀλίγα καὶ βασιλείασ Μακεδόνεσ αἱροῦσιν. (Plutarch, Titus Flamininus, chapter 15 4:2)
  • διόπερ οἱ Σικελιῶται τό τε τῆσ χώρασ κάλλοσ καὶ τὴν εὐδαιμονίαν τὴν ἐν αὐτῇ θαυμάζοντεσ μετέωροι ταῖσ ἐλπίσιν ἐγένοντο, θεωροῦντεσ ἄξια τῶν κινδύνων ἔπαθλα τοῖσ νικῶσι προκείμενα. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter 8 5:1)
  • πρῶτον μὲν γὰρ τὸ κάλλιστον καὶ δικαιότατον διαφθείρει, τὸν ἔπαινον, ὥστε μηκέτι δοκεῖν πιστὸν μηδὲ ἀληθῶσ γιγνόμενον, καὶ τό γε πάντων δεινότατον, τὰ τῆσ ἀρετῆσ ἔπαθλα τῇ κακίᾳ δίδωσιν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 21:1)
  • τὰ δὲ τῆσ νίκησ ἔπαθλα προεκαλεῖτο τὰσ τῶν ἀγωνιζομένων ἀνδραγαθίασ· (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvi, chapter 70 36:3)

Synonyms

  1. the prize of a contest

Related

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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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